Teresa Miller, a key advisor in the federal office creating health exchanges, said she and her colleagues are too busy implementing the federal health reform law to worry about how the U.S. Supreme Court might rule on it.

Both houses in the Maryland General Assembly approved earlier this week bills furthering the state’s efforts to implement a federally mandated health insurance exchange.

Two years ago the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was passed by Congress. On March 23, 2010 the President signed the bill into law. At that time I wrote the article below. Well, how did I do at predicting what would happen? I think I was pretty close on most things.

The federal health reform law, a landmark piece of legislation passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress and President Barack Obama two years ago today (March 23), has delivered on its promise to change health care in the U.S.

The U.S. Supreme Court will depart from its normal practice and make audio recordings of the three days of hearings on the constitutionality of the federal health reform law available each afternoon.

Small businesses in California admitted in a new survey that they do not understand the benefits available to them through federal health reform.

ANNAPOLIS, MD — A group tasked with implementing federal health reform in Maryland is recommending that insurance agents and brokers continue to sell small-group health insurance when health exchanges begin operating in the state.

The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the federal health reform law, focusing itself on the individual mandate, with an expected ruling by June 2012.

The federal health reform law, if it stands, should trim the number of uninsured Americans to about 5%, according to an Oliver Wyman survey.

Each time the organization representing state insurance commissioners puts out its critique of some aspect of the federal health reform law or its proposed implementation, a key question is raised: Is the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) representing the interests of those it is serving, primarily consumers, or is it serving its own interests?