Affordable Healthcare Act

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many states are still on the fence about President Barack Obama's health care law. Now the administration says governors can have more time. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a letter to governors Friday that she still wants to hear by the end of next week if states will be setting up new health insurance markets under the law...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and the Legislature should broaden Idaho's Medicaid program to cover more than 100,000 additional low-income residents, but insist on tying the expansion to a benefit program that improves care, boosts personal accountability and reduces costs...

Jill says...The opponents to the Affordable Health Care Act constantly complain it will come between you and your doctor. Now the House has just passed a bill that would prevent medical care to a pregnant women and has a life-threatening medical condition and need to terminate her pregnancy...

This will eventually be decided by the Supreme Court. But until then, another lawsuit has been dismissed. The lawsuit argued that Congress does not have the power under the Constitution to require health care purchases and that the mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993...