The Obama Administration, fighting against critics of its health reform policy requiring religious employers to provide women with contraceptives, will force insurance companies to provide the services in cases where employers object to birth control on religious grounds.

The American Medical Association, whose support of the federal health reform law was key to its passage, may withdraw its support of the law.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, signed a bill allowing state residents to buy health insurance from other New England states in a move state officials say they hope will stimulate more competition and create more jobs.

The Republican budget proposal would deny coverage to at least 41% of those currently enrolled in Medicaid by 2021, according to a new survey.

A new Republican federal budget proposal cuts Medicare and Medicaid funding, part of its attempt to cut government spending by more than $6 trillion in the next decade.

Eric Cantor, U.S. House majorty leader, announced a delay in legislators’ vote seeking repeal health reform legislation in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Tuscon, Ariz., Jan. 8.

President Barack Obama said he has compromised with Republicans, serving up an extension on Bush-era tax cuts in return for more unemployment benefits and other economic recovery steps.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Americans should be prepared for two more years of verbal combat over health care reform when the new Congress is seated in January, but wholesale changes to the law are unlikely before the next election, experts say.

The U.S. Senate’s Democratic majority twice failed in its attempts Dec. 4 to extend Bush era tax cuts to people they described as middle-class Americans.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure calling for an extension of Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 a year.