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Insurance signups reach 6 million goal

WASHINGTON – Back on track after a stumbling start, President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul reached a milestone Thursday, with more than 6 million Americans signed up for coverage thro...

DATE: Mar 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Millions could get extra time for health sign-ups

WASHINGTON – Millions of Americans could get extra time to enroll for taxpayer-subsidized coverage this year under President Barack Obama’s health-care law, allowing the administration to bo...

DATE: Mar 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama to extend deadline

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is granting more time for people to apply for health care if they started the process but were unable to complete it before the March 31 deadline. ...

DATE: Mar 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Law will complicate cancer care for many

WASHINGTON – Some of America’s best cancer hospitals are off-limits to many of the people now signing up for coverage under the nation’s new health-care program. Doctors and admin...

DATE: Mar 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Your old health plan is good for two years

WASHINGTON – Warding off the specter of election-year health-insurance cancellations, the Obama administration Wednesday announced a two-year extension for individual policies that don’t mee...

DATE: Mar 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Do state websites pose an unhealthy risk?

WASHINGTON – As the Obama administration raced to meet its self-imposed deadline for online health-insurance markets, security experts working for the government worried that state computer ...

DATE: Mar 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Midsize employers get another reprieve

WASHINGTON – Angling to avoid political peril, the Obama administration Monday granted employers another delay in a heavily criticized requirement that medium-to-larger firms cover their wor...

DATE: Feb 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Finding uninsured Americans by the numbers

WASHINGTON – Wanted: Millions of uninsured Americans willing to give President Barack Obama’s health-care law a chance. With time running out, it may not be so hard for the admini...

DATE: Feb 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Poll: Uninsured rate among adults drops

WASHINGTON – It may just be the start of a new trend. The uninsured rate dropped modestly this month as expanded coverage rolled out under President Barack Obama’s health-care law, a major s...

DATE: Jan 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Website security gets OK

WASHINGTON – Cybersecurity concerns over President Barack Obama’s health-care website have been cleared up through testing, a government security professional who initially had qualms about ...

DATE: Jan 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Few young adults signing up

WASHINGTON – It’s an older, costlier crowd that’s signing up so far for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s law, according to government figures released Monday. Enrollments are ...

DATE: Jan 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. health costs continue to grow slowly

WASHINGTON – Even as his health-care law divided the nation, President Barack Obama’s first term produced historically low growth in health costs, government experts said in a new report Mon...

DATE: Jan 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World