Joel Ario, former insurance commissioner of Pennsylvania, has compared the federal health reform law that President Barack Obama signed in March to Republican Mitt Romney’s plan in Massachusetts.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected its first opportunity to weigh in on federal health reform, but legal experts say the matter is likely to return to the High Court in the future.

The new federal health reform law could help enrollees in traditional Medicare save more than $3,500 over the next decade, and maybe as much as $12,300 for those seniors and people with disabilities who have high prescription costs.

Talking heads abound on cable news and talk shows, asking if the Republicans will try to repeal the health care overhaul law. It’s an exercise in how to get higher ratings for their shows, because the chance of repealing “Obamacare” is about as slim as a rookery of penguins taking up residence in the Sahara Desert.

Republicans who now have a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to fight to repeal federal health reform, passed in March by Congress’ Democratic leadership.

Last week I had a quick conversation with my Maryland congressman at the Starbucks near our IFA offices, and came to understand more fully the dilemma that Democrats face in the midterm elections, and why voters are frustrated that candidates still don’t get it.

Say Republicans triumph in the Nov. 2 mid-term elections, that they then have enough votes to affect serious change in Congress and that they successfully repeal President Barack Obama’s health reform law. Then what?

President Barack Obama signed legislation extending the National Flood Insurance Program for one year, just hours before it was to lapse again.

A majority of the states represented in the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) met with President Barack Obama Sept. 22 to discuss implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

The U.S. Senate has approved extending the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for one year.