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As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act gears into full implementation over the next two years, health insurance will be extended to millions of Americans who couldn’t previously afford it. With medical bills one of the largest causes of bankruptcy, will health care reform bring a reduction in people who resort to bankruptcy court to seek debt relief? About 1.35 million people filed for bankruptcy last year, with the number poised to rise in 2012. It’s unclear exactly how …

Religious organizations are up in arms over a federal law that now requires them to provide preventive contraceptive services they don’t agree with in their employee health plans. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (informally known as Obamacare) includes a requirement that employer  health plans cover preventive contraception services with no cost-sharing for employees. While that might seem like a welcome relief to female employees who couldn’t afford birth control before, some religious organizations, and even for-profit companies, are trying …

Less than a month after a Supreme Court ruling that upheld most of the controversial health care reform law, an academic paper is challenging the legality of federal subsidies designed to help low- and middle-income individuals purchase health insurance. The paper, written by Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University, and Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at libertarian think tank the Cato Institute, asserts that based on the language in the 2010 Patient Protection and …

When the Supreme Court upheld the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last week, the rhetoric started flying fast and furious. In lieu of debating the actual merits and policy of the health care law, its opponents have resorted to gross hyperbole and outright lies, calling the bill a “government takeover of health care” and the “largest tax increase in the history of the world” that will add “trillions to our deficits” and mean that “up to 20 million …

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled today to uphold most of the provisions of the controversial 2010 federal health care law, including allowing the individual mandate requiring all Americans to purchase health care to survive as a tax. In the 5-4 ruling, with Chief Justice John Roberts providing the swing vote, the court gave a green light to health care reform almost in its entirety. The only limit the court put on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care …