Former President Bill Clinton returned to Arkansas on Monday for two days of rallies aimed at energizing Democratic voters in state political races including a U.S. Senate contest seen as crucial to maintaining the party's control of that chamber.
The failed Scottish vote to pull out from the United Kingdom stirred secessionist hopes for some in the United States, where almost a quarter of people are open to their states leaving the union, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stoked speculation on Sunday that she was moving closer to announcing a bid for the White House in 2016 as she visited the early-voting state of Iowa to take part in the state's annual "steak fry," a gathering of Democratic activists that often attracts presidential hopefuls.
Health insurance premiums for low-cost Obamacare plans in 16 U.S. cities will fall slightly in 2015 as competition helps drives down price for the new subsidized individual health plans, according to a study Friday from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
In its annual meeting on Wednesday, the the Southern Baptist Convention recognized the Green family, who owned the Hobby Lobby craft chain, for their legal efforts to challenge the contraceptive mandate in Obamacare, the Washington Post reported.
Who knew one of President Barack Obama's problems on the nationwide health plan was the same one former US President Bill Clinton experienced earlier? A White House transcript released by his presidential library shared Clinton's concern in telling people with individual health plans not to worry about switching to his planned healthcare initiative, Politico reported.
A GOP strategist told the Daily Herald that it is unlikely that Democrat candidates will be championing the Affordable Healthcare Act wholeheartedly ahead of the congressional elections considering the fact that the negative opinion about the healthcare law is already baked in.
In his meeting with Pope Francis, US President Barack Obama invited the pope to come over to the US to discuss the Catholic Church's reservations over his health care law, Reuters said.
The US Supreme Court saw its member judges at odds deliberating over the contraceptive mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, USA Today said in a report.
On March 25, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc will be among the 47 for-profit companies who will be seeking legal exemption to include birth control coverage in their employees' insurance plans, Bloomberg said.
The latest detailed analysis released by the US Congressional Budget Office revealed that The Affordable Care Act or Obamacare will cause workers to either leave their jobs, delay their return from jobs or simply quit the workforce altogether due to changes in healthcare coverage.
With the law funding thousands of routine government activities set to expire at midnight, U.S. Senate Democrats rejected a proposal by the Republican-led House of Representatives to delay Obamacare for a year in return for temporary funding of the federal government beyond Monday.
Tea Party Republicans are bringing forward a bill that would make funding the government conditional on defunding President Obama's 2010 healthcare law, Fox News reported. This move is seen as a major victory for the Heritage Action PAC, and its group's leader Senator Jim DeMint. The animosity in Washington is so bad, a government shutdown may be pending as a result of this action.
The Obama administration has quietly notified healthcare insurers, who happen to be smokers that they may get a delay from tobacco-use penalties that could have made their premiums unaffordable. A computer glitch is the cause of the postponement delay, and a fix will take at least a year to put in place.
During an impassioned speech to the House of Representatives on Thursday, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann, spoke against the healthcare law signed into law in 2010. Derisively known as 'Obamacare' the Minnesota representative implored her fellow lawmakers to "repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens."
