The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and the Treasury have issued new regulations requiring new private health plans to cover most preventative medical services without copayments or other fees. (more)

Besides offering several immediate health care benefits to all U.S. citizens, the new health care reform law will affect persons with disabilities and older persons in several ways. According to one Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Medicare benefits expert, some of those affects are good and some are not so good. (more)

With its passage Sunday night of the bills H.R. 3590 -- the Senate Health Care Reform Bill -- and H.R. 4872 -- the Reconciliation Act of 2010 -- the U.S House of Representatives cleared the way for final enactment of the most sweeping reform of the U.S. health care system since the creation of Medicare in 1965. While the most impactful and controversial elements of the new law, like mandatory health insurance coverage, will not take effect until 2014, many people will see some important changes much sooner. (more)

It's a showdown, folks. Health and Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius has called out executives of five health insurance companies demanding that they publicly justify their company's proposed premium rate hikes. (more)

If you want health insurance but cannot afford it, the health care reform bills being considered by Congress will "provide" it to you. But if you simply do not want health insurance, health care reform will "impose" it on you. Both the Senate and House health care reform bills strive to make sure all Americans have health insurance. The differences in how they do that are important to you. (more)

It's unfortunate that GBA's Lynn Mueller decides to stick himself in the past throughout his entire column, starting out with a quote from former president Abraham Lincoln - using the famous "Of the People" quote to defend anti-government. (more)

In his speech to Congress promoting his health care reform plan, President Obama stated, “Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.” While that is true, you also need to understand that nothing in the plan prohibits your employer from changing your coverage and thus, your doctor. (more)

Certainly the scariest rumor surrounding the health care reform bill holds that the bill would establish mandatory government "death panels" assigned to encourage elderly Americans to opt-out of life extending treatment in order to reduce Medicare expenses. This rumor is false. (more)

Wondering what that health care reform bill really says? Now the Government Printing Office (GPO) has published an authenticated copy of the bill, (H.R. 3200), America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, on its Federal Digital System web site. (more)

Appearing Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sec. of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius suggested that the Obama administration might be willing to consider nonprofit insurance cooperatives as an alternative to its controversial government-run public insurance plan. Nonprofit cooperatives are far from a new idea. In fact, you may already belong to one. (more)