Time magazine this week is out with a mammoth, 24,000-word story on the state of the U.S. health care system written by Steven Brill, an author who many best be known as the creator of CourTV. According to the story, Brill spent seven months researching why health care...

If you were expecting Florida GOP Gov. Rick Scott's huge about-face on health care reform's Medicaid expansion to inspire other stalwart Obamacare opponents to follow his lead, you may find yourself disappointed.

Immediately after news of Scott's decision to broaden Medicaid to anyone who earns up to 133...

Before he was Florida's governor, Rick Scott sank $5 million of his own fortune into trying to kill President Barack Obama's health care reform agenda. On Wednesday, Scott, a Republican, completed a major turnaround when he announced his state would take part in a key element of Obama's...

If there was ever one thing that would compel Republican state leaders to set aside their political and ideological opposition to President Barack Obama's health care reform law, it was going to be lobbying by powerful health care interests in their backyards.

That may be playing out...

President Barack Obama nominated someone to run one of the biggest agencies in the federal government Thursday. It's not likely to matter, if recent history is any guide.

The agency is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the nominee is Marilyn Tavenner. Being the...

Before President Barack Obama enacted a health care reform law in 2010, Medicaid always seemed like the also-ran of entitlement programs. Politicians talked about Medicare and Social Security all the time but Medicaid, a joint federal-state program for low-income people, wasn't always part of the conversation.

But because Obamacare depends...

Health care reform may have been suffered some bruises at the hands of Congress and the Supreme Court that could shorten its reach and Medicare may face cuts during the next round of budget negotiations between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans.

But one...

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will become the sixth Republican state chief executive to push for the expansion of Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care reform law Wednesday.

Snyder is holding a press conference with interest groups representing the health care industry and senior citizens, the...

The big headline from the Congressional Budget Office's latest projections on the economy and the federal budget is that the deficit dropped below $1 trillion for the first time during Barack Obama's presidency.

But the CBO report also includes some interesting nuggets about federal health care...

Looks like Utah won't be running its own Obamacare health insurance exchange after all.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) effectively withdrew his state's bid to incorporate the state's existing small-business health insurance marketplace into President Barack Obama's health care reform law after a meeting in Washington...

Pennsylvania won't make Medicaid available to more of its poor residents, Gov. Tom Corbett (R) told state legislators during his budget address Tuesday.

By rejecting the Medicaid expansion under President Barack Obama's health care reform law, Corbett becomes the 11th Republican governor to turn down federal funding to...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), who opposed President Barack Obama's health care reform law, wants to take advantage of Obamacare funding to expand his state's Medicaid program to more poor people, he announced in his budget proposal Monday.

Kasich is now the fifth GOP governor to back the...

Just 8 percent of part-time workers are enrolled in their company health insurance plans, according to a report released Monday that underscores the reasons for and the challenges created by President Barack Obama's health care reform law.

Low-income workers are the primary target of Obamacare's expansion of health...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has passed on an opportunity to decide whether his state will expand Medicaid to more poor people under President Barack Obama's health care reform law.

Scott issued a budget Thursday that doesn't provide money for the Medicaid expansion -- but he...

The White House won't accept any cuts to Medicaid funding as part of a deal on the budget, a senior aide to President Barack Obama said Thursday.

Even Medicaid cuts previously supported by the White House are now off the table, Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic...

When it comes to preventing gun-related violence, President Barack Obama and the National Rifle Association agree on one key priority: Both call for measures aimed at preventing people with mental illnesses from owning firearms.

In the days after a lone gunman massacred 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., Obama...

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) believes President Barack Obama's health care reform law will bring a windfall to his state and he aims to take advantage.

During his State of the State address to legislators Monday, Nixon made the case that Missouri should expand its Medicaid program to...

The nation's largest health insurer hasn't had a full-fledged chief executive for more than six years.

No, it's not UnitedHealth Group or WellPoint -- it's the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the massive federal agency that oversees those two entitlement programs and is in charge of carrying out the...

Could immigration reform expand the scope and cost of President Barack Obama's health care reform law? If advocates for immigrants have their way, it will.

With Obama and congressional leaders eyeing a comprehensive immigration reform package, some lawmakers see an opening to that would enable millions of immigrants,...

Now, it's Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's turn to fight off attacks against Obamacare.

Brewer, who became a conservative darling for her hardline immigration stance, is now a taking potshots from her erstwhile allies on the right wing over her decision to expand Arizona's Medicaid program...