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.

The National Association of Health Underwriters is urging its membership to contact their senators to support a bill that would exempt agent and broker commissions from the medical loss ratios controlling health insurers’ spending.

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.

For more than 20 years I have been going to Washington to visit with our members of Congress and their staff in order to promote common sense, workable solutions to reform health care.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has ignited the biggest flap between women’s rights advocates and religious leaders since abortion was invented. She did it by demonstrating one of the flaws in Obamacare: it is so open-ended that the government can make of it what it wants. I am talking, of course, about mandating that health insurance cover birth-control pills.

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.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a San Francisco Democrat, has joined forces with those seeking approval of an initiative that would allow California to regulate health insurance rates.

A bipartisan, companion Senate bill to the House bill excluding insurance agent compensation from medical loss ratio (MLR) calculations will be introduced in a few days, although the political environment makes its passage uncertain.

The Obama Administration rejected Texas’ request that it be allowed to phase in federal health reform‘s medical loss ratio to prevent the state’s health insurance market from destabilizing.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky told health care advocates that the November presidential election is all about health reform and how far it can be taken.