The U.S. Supreme Court continued to question the federal health reform law, raising questions today (March 28) about whether the law can function if segments it might consider unconstitutional were to fall.

The U.S. Senate managed to slimly uphold President Barack Obama‘s controversial birth control policy, voting 51-48 to halt a Republican push to free employers and insurers companies from having to provide coverage for contraceptives, despite their religious or moral objections.

As a direct result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) – also known as ObamaCare – health insurance agent and broker commissions have been slashed by as much as 50%. Agencies have been forced to lay off employees, limit products and services, shift to other lines, and have seen significant drops in compensation.

“Using health agents and brokers differently” might encourage people to enroll in health insurance, if the controversial individual mandate included in the federal health reform law were eliminated, according to a new government report exploring health exchanges.

Elimination of the individual mandate from the federal health reform law would not kill the effort, according to 41 health insurance industry experts, who suggested nine possible alternatives.

The newest member of Congress said health care reform was on its “last legs” before his election and is calling for Washington, D.C., to start from scratch on health reform, a stance echoed by one of the highest-ranking Republicans.

Foreshadowing the death of a public option in a comprehensive health reform bill that would garner the signature of President Barack Obama, Consumer Watchdog is urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to strengthen oversight of the health insurance industry.

Virginia’s outgoing attorney general says any move by Congress to mandate the purchase of private health insurance may be unconstitutional.

At least nine Republican attorneys general, including Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, are questioning the legality of a compromise on Nebraska’s Medicaid payments that enabled the U.S. Senate’s health care reform bill to win approval.

The U.S. Senate passed a health care reform bill today (Dec. 24), excluding a government-run insurance plan, but calling for sweeping changes in the nation’s $2.5 billion health care system

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