I was curious about how the US aging population change affects future medicare patients... those < 55 especially, which includes our offspring who are now in their 30's and approaching 40.  Basically, for those now or soon to be age 55 (i.e. within 10 years of medicare eligibility) are will increase eligibility&...

27 of 50 states have filed suit in federal court in opposition to the ACA in the case before the Surpreme Court (54%).  These are the 26 states joined in the federal suit in the Supreme Court plus Virginia which brought a separate suit against the ACA and didn't join with the other 26 states that are party to the suit before the ...

I often wondered who was specifically exempted by the term "most" must participate in the mandate.   Here's the specifics:

The individual mandate can be satisfied by obtaining coverage through employer-sponsored insurance, an individual insurance plan including those to be offered through the new health ...

The conservative desire for "small gov't" or "smaller gov't" (if "small" means fiscally as opposed to some other measures of "small") is coming true moving forward in time if one omits gov't expenditures for social security and medicare outlays.

Outside of spending on SS and Medicare, federal gov't outlays will drop from their historical ...

There's suddenly a lot of web, news, & blogs discussion over the last two days on the question related to constitutional arguments for or against the primary aspect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) --- the mandate to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty.   The sudden news/blog interest occurres because the ...