News coverage, opinion and information on health care reform and health care policy including the Affordable Care Act.
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
President Obama offered a defiant defense of government funding for Planned Parenthood Friday and urged the group's members to help his administration sign up more women for benefits under his besieged health-care law. Published April 26, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
As her fellow House Republicans took another symbolic vote Friday to repeal President Obama’s health care law, Rep. Diane Black, Tennessee Republican, filed a bill that prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from targeting political groups with any data obtained by carrying out the overhaul. Published May 17, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Prepare your wallet. Health premiums are set to rise by as much as 400 percent under Obamacare. That's according to a new report from the House Energy and Commerce Committee released this week that uses information from the nation's largest health insurance companies to estimate the emerging costs of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Published May 14, 2013
By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
Amid growing concerns about the implementation of President Obama's health care law, Mr. Obama stepped up promotion of the law by pegging its benefits to this weekend's Mother's Day celebration. Published May 10, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A federal judge in New York rebuked the Obama administration on Friday and said the federal government will not get a reprieve from his order to make a form of emergency contraception available to all ages without a prescription. Published May 10, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Obama's top health officials released a massive trove of medical billing data Wednesday, which they said will help expose hospitals that charge too much for common procedures. Published May 8, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The head of a drug manufacturer that lobbied on behalf of "Obamacare" now has come out swinging on one key aspect of the plan — the requirement for more tax rebates for dual Medicaid-Medicare recipients. Published May 8, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Sen. Tom Harkin said he will remove his hold on President Obama's pick to lead the nation's Medicare agency, but the powerful Iowa Democrat said Tuesday he is still not happy with the administration's "penny-wise, pound-foolish" tendency to raid a fund designated for preventative health programs. Published May 7, 2013
By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Published May 7, 2013
By Joseph Curl
Like rats abandoning a sinking ship, Senate Democrats are furiously fleeing the coming disaster that is "Obamacare." Published May 5, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A group of small business owners has filed suit against President Obama's health care law, breathing new life into a long-simmering debate on whether the law's premium tax credits were solely intended for states that set up their own insurance markets. Published May 3, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
The South Carolina state House passed a bill Wednesday that declares President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to be "null and void," and criminalizes its implementation. Published May 2, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
The Obama administration, under massive pressure from both sides of the culture war over contraception, has decided to appeal a federal court’s order to make a morning-after pill available to everyone without a prescription, just a day after expanding access to the pills for younger teenage girls. Published May 1, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Obama on Tuesday vowed that his health care law will be a success for both insured and soon-to-be-covered Americans, even though it is a "big, complicated piece of business" facing ceaseless criticism on Capitol Hill and roadblocks to implementation in Republican-led states. Published April 30, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. and - The Washington Times
Opponents of President Obama's health care law are eagerly scouring the paperwork insurers file with states, looking for early evidence of "rate shock" — rising prices ahead of full implementation of the state "exchanges" that begin next year. Published April 29, 2013
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
When crunch time comes, when the chips are down, when the rubber meets the road — employ the cliché of your choice — Americans can put away their selfish concerns and come together in common cause. Even Congress, our only native criminal class. Published April 26, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Obama's top health official tried Thursday to stanch Republican lawmakers' complaints about the federal health care law amid growing concerns from both sides of the aisle that the administration is facing a "train wreck" as it prepares to go live with key parts of the system next year. Published April 25, 2013
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
Sen. Max Baucus, who as chairman of the Finance Committee guided Obamacare down the tracks in the U.S. Senate, is changing his tune now that he's about to retreat into Montana to hide in placid retirement. He sees "a huge train wreck coming down" with the implementation of President Obama's health care takeover. Now he tells us. Published April 25, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A Democratic senator who helped write President Obama's health care law stunned administration officials by saying he thinks it's headed for a "train wreck." Published April 17, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
The largest movie theater chain in the country has cut the workweek of thousands of its employees, blaming President Obama’s health care law in a company memo that announced its decision. Published April 16, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Budget estimates for states to participate in the Obamacare health insurance exchange have soared to $4.4 billion, the president's proposal sent to Congress on Wednesday outlined. Published April 11, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, a leading force in the creation of President Obama's health care law, now says the health reform is at risk of falling under its own regulatory weight and that it's becoming too complicated to properly implement. Published April 10, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that she has been taken off guard by the concerted and continuing opposition to "Obamacare" and that her office has been pushed into public relations mode to persuade states to join the exchange. Published April 10, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Trustees at Indiana University reported this week that a study on how to properly use condoms had been completed — and that funding for the research had come from federal stimulus dollars, to the tune of $423,500. Published April 5, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A federal judge has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration must allow females of all ages over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill. Published April 5, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
The stigma of "Obamacare" is so potent in many red states that some Republican leaders are walking a linguistic tightrope, trying to avoid being seen as joining the massive new health care entitlement but still hoping to get a piece of the money being offered. Published April 4, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A tax on everything from X-ray machines to oxygen tanks took effect at the beginning of this year — one of about 20 taxes and fees included in President Obama's health care law — and has emerged as the central battleground in the fight by the law's opponents to repeal parts of the president's overhaul. Published April 3, 2013
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
"Obamacare" looks increasingly inevitable, but one lawsuit making its way through the court system could pull the plug on the sweeping federal health care law. Published March 31, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
The Senate on Thursday voted to repeal a sales tax on medical devices that is part of President Obama's health-care law, a rare bipartisan attempt to strip away a section of the controversial reforms. Published March 21, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Lawmakers in North Dakota — where abortion laws are already among the most restrictive in the nation — are now considering a personhood bill that would outright ban the procedure. Published March 20, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Step away from the soda. Researchers say sugary drinks are to blame for the deaths of 180,000 around the world — each year. Published March 20, 2013
By Sen. Mitch McConnell
Two-and-a-half years ago, President Obama teamed up with Democrats in Congress to pass a health care bill they knew most Americans didn't want. Americans weren't shy about expressing their bad opinion of the bill, so Democrats settled on a dishonest sales pitch aimed at changing their minds. Published July 5, 2012
By Rep. John Boehner
There's no doubt that the president's health care law is hurting our economy. Even before the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on Obamacare, the president's law was driving up health costs and making it harder for small businesses to hire. Published July 5, 2012
By Grover Norquist - The Washington Times
It's official: Obamacare is Obamatax. The Supreme Court saved Obamacare but at the expense of exposing it as simply a massive collection of taxes - 20 taxes at least. Obamacare was supposed to reduce the cost of health insurance but it has six taxes on Americans who already have health insurance. Your insurance will cost more to pay Mr. Obama's tax hikes. Published July 4, 2012
By Rep. Michele Bachmann
The Supreme Court ruling on the president's health care plan resulted in a sad day for freedom, liberty and the American people. In an activist decision, the court rewrote the foundation of the Affordable Care Act and then ruled it constitutional. Published June 28, 2012
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
The Supreme Court affirmed on Thursday what the White House never wanted to hear: Obamacare constitutes the largest and most regressive tax in American history. Published June 28, 2012
By Rick Santorum
The Obama presidency has been disastrous on so many levels. From unemployment to rising energy prices to an appeasing foreign policy, this Administration has exhibited a multitude of failures. Yet, if we’re to talk about the lack of forward vision that keeps us in this economic recession, look no further than Obamacare. Published June 20, 2012
By George J. Terwilliger III
A curious chorus of Obamacare devotees is being heard today to claim that only an audaciously overactivist Supreme Court could rule unconstitutional Congress' latest attempt to manage the private enterprise of health care. Published June 11, 2012
By Sen. Jon Kyl and Dr. Eric Novack
When Obamacare passed in 2010, one of its essential elements was the "essential health benefit" (EHB) mandate - in essence, the things Washington politicians thought every American's health care plan must contain. Published June 7, 2012
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
President Obama promised his health care reform law would save money and reduce costs. It wasn't true then; it's certainly not true now. Lower- and middle-class Americans already have seen their premiums go up. They feel the pinch from taxes on everything from a wheelchair to a bottle of aspirin. While waiting for the Supreme Court to rescue us from this disaster, Congress needs to provide relief. Published June 4, 2012
By Dr. Milton R. Wolf - The Washington Times
The intertwined strands of evil DNA - Obamanomics and Obamacare - will determine the outcome of the 2012 election, and Barack Obama knows it. That's why he desperately wants to talk about something else. Anything else. A failed stimulus. Published May 8, 2012
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
Thanks to Obamacare, more people will find themselves without health insurance. It turns out President Obama's signature accomplishment was so badly drafted that businesses are likely to find it more cost-effective to pay a government penalty than provide insurance to their employees. Published May 2, 2012
Potential donors to a nonprofit that promotes President Obama's health care law are reportedly reluctant to open their wallets in the wake of a scandal-laced week for the administration. Published May 20 2013
A Republican senator is citing revelations that the IRS targeted conservative political groups in a bid to block President Obama's request for funding at the agency to implement his health care law. Published May 14 2013
A key Democratic congressman said Thursday it is "a little crazy" for House Republicans to criticize the Obama administration's efforts to implement and education the public about the federal health care law, considering they've denied it funding and try to dismantle it at every turn. Published April 18 2013
A House Republican leader wants the Obama administration to explain why an application to use insurance marketplaces under the health-care law asks people if they would like to register to vote. Published March 25 2013
Sen. Orrin Hatch has never been shy in voicing his concerns about President Obama's health care law, but he was particularly put off by one aspect of a newly created health innovation center under the Affordable Care Act — treadmill desks. Published March 20 2013
A Florida businessman who sued the Obama administration over the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act is drawing comparisons between the requirement and his ancestors' escape from religious persecution in 17th-century England. Published March 18 2013
Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday dared President Obama to address the unintended consequences of "Obamacare" in his State of the Union address. Published February 11 2013
A pair of powerful Republicans in the House sent yet another letter to the Treasury Department — their fourth so far — demanding documents related to the Obama administration's decision to extend tax subsidies to people who will enroll in federally run exchanges as part of the president's signature health care law. Published January 29 2013
Let the anti-Obamacare rallies begin. Americans for Prosperity plans to hold a "Hands Off My Health Care" rally on the steps of the Colorado state capitol here Friday, a day after the Supreme Court ruled constitutional the Affordable Health Care Act's individual mandate, now known as a tax. Published June 28 2012
Leading House Republicans vowed to escalate the fight against President Obama's health care law, saying they're more intent than ever to repeal the whole thing after the Supreme Court upheld its constitutionality Thursday. Published June 28 2012
Conservatives upset by the Supreme Court's decision to uphold most of the 2010 health care law are furiously cutting checks to Mitt Romney's campaign. Published June 28 2012
The Supreme Court decision upholding the heart of President Obama's health care law landed with a thud at a major gathering of pro-life activists in Arlington on Thursday. Published June 28 2012
By Kerry Picket
House Speaker John Boehner's Office released the following statement regarding a House Energy and Commerce Committee memo that details its "year-long investigation" into President Barack Obama's health care law and whether or not the legislation was created in exchange for "specific policy outcomes for public support of the law." Published May 31 2012
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A Washington Times' Commentary front page from April 2, 2010, featuring a cartoon from Alex Hunter.
