Medical care should be taxed as a means of increasing the money put into the “chronically underfunded public health system” in the U.S., a new report recommends.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says that U.S. Supreme Court arguments about the federal health reform law show him that two major provisions of the reform may be cut, thereby making a new law necessary.

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.

If you believe the theory that a single-payer system of health insurance is the ultimate goal of the Obama Administration and Democrats, then March 27 might prove an important day.

The two justices who may be the linchpin in whether the federal health reform is deemed constitutional joined another pair of justices appointed by Republicans to probe whether Congress overstepped its authority with the individual mandate to buy insurance.

Both sides in the argument over the constitutionality of the federal health reform law agreed on one thing at the first hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court: that the justices can rule this year.

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.

A Pennsylvania Senate panel approved on March 7 a proposal that would make the individual mandate provision of the federal health reform illegal in the state.

The American Center for Law and Justice has filed a second brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, this time arguing against the individual mandate in the federal health reform law.