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More young Marylanders have health care coverage
The percentage of young Marylanders with health insurance rose to 81.7 percent last year from 75 percent in 2009, a rate much faster than the national average, according to data […]
Health insurance premiums up 4% this year
WASHINGTON — Annual premiums for job-based family health insurance went up just 4 percent this year, but that’s no comfort with the price tag approaching $16,000 and rising more than […]
Hospital stocks jump after health care ruling
WASHINGTON — Hospital stocks rose sharply Thursday after the Supreme Court guaranteed them millions more paying customers by upholding the core of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Some insurance […]
High court to deliver health care ruling Thursday
WASHINGTON — They’ve known the outcome for three months. Now it’s time for the nine Supreme Court justices to share it with the world. Barring some incredibly strange twist, shortly […]
Millions still go without insurance if law passes
One of the biggest misconceptions about President Obama’s health care overhaul isn’t who the law will cover, but rather who it won’t. If it survives Supreme court scrutiny, the landmark […]
Obama’s health care aid to small firms disappoints
WASHINGTON — It seemed like a good idea at the time. But a health insurance tax credit for small businesses, part of President Barack Obama’s health care law that gets […]
Medicare disruptions seen if health law is struck
WASHINGTON — Tossing out President Barack Obama’s health care law would have major unintended consequences for Medicare’s payment systems, unseen but vital plumbing that handles 100 million monthly claims from […]
General Assembly passes health exchange bill
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland General Assembly has finished work on legislation to create the framework for a public marketplace to provide health care to the uninsured. The state Senate gave […]
Justices question health care mandate
WASHINGTON — During the second of three days of oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Obama administration’s health-care reform law, the split over the constitutionality of the individual mandate […]
House, Senate pass health exchange bill
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland General Assembly has passed a measure to create a framework for a health insurance market place to provide coverage to the uninsured. The House of Delegates and […]
Feds release health overhaul blueprint for states
WASHINGTON — Tackling a huge logistical challenge, the Obama administration Monday released an ambitious blueprint for states to match up uninsured Americans with coverage that’s right for them under the […]
Jack L.B. Gohn: Contraception, an unrepresentative church, and unresponsive courts
At this writing we still don’t have an outcome, either regulatory or political, in the fight between the President and the bishops over the proposed mandate that employers, including Catholic […]
