Even as Americans debate whether President Obama’s health-care law and its promise of guaranteed health coverage should be scrapped, many far less affluent nations are moving in the opposite direction — to provide medical insurance to all citizens. China, ... [full story]

Health-insurance companies must tell customers who get a premium rebate this summer that the check is the result of the Obama administration's health-care law, according to federal guidelines released Friday. The move is the latest sign the Obama ... [full story]

Two-thirds of Americans who work in the private sector lack disability insurance, even though most workers say missing work for three months or more because of sickness or injury would cause “financial hardship,” a new survey finds. The survey ... [full story]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (UPI) -- Short-term health insurance policies are better than no coverage but people should be aware of their limitations, Minnesota's attorney general says. "Before you buy such a policy, keep in mind the policy is temporary. ... [full story]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare, the U.S. healthcare program for the elderly, is spending $8.3 billion on a test project that is supposed to improve the quality of private health coverage but has mainly rewarded mediocre insurance plans, a government watchdog ... [full story]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders the fate of healthcare reform in the current election year, a study released on Thursday shows that one in four working-age Americans went without insurance at some point in 2011, often ... [full story]

With a marathon three days of arguments about the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act  now completed, the U.S. Supreme Court justices , are turning their attention to drafting and the discussions that will lead to a ... [full story]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A possible misunderstanding about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could cloud Supreme Court deliberations on its fate, leaving the impression that the law's insurance requirement is more onerous than it actually is. During the recent ... [full story]

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration stipulated the incontestable to a disgruntled federal court on Thursday, formally declaring that “the power of the courts to review the constitutionality of legislation is beyond dispute.” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., bowing ... [full story]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The individual insurance requirement that the Supreme Court is reviewing isn't the first federal mandate involving health care. There's a Medicare payroll tax on workers and employers, for example, and a requirement that hospitals provide free ... [full story]