Legacy Topic: Health Care

The $5.7 billion deal with let Aetna double its number of Medicaid members.

Shares of the insurance giant Aetna are looking awfully healthy this morning. Acquiring another insurer is likely providing a bit of a shot in the arm. It's the latest in a stream of health insurance mergers we've been charting -- many of them happening for the same reasons.

Oregon will take federal money to expand Medicaid, and try to cut costs too.

The House Oversight Committee examines how the IRS will collect taxes from people who fail to buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are spearheading an effort to fight against health care fraud by teaming up with private insurers.

A report from the Congressional Budget office says President Obama's health care law could save the federal government $84 billion over the next decade. That savings is mostly because of the Supreme Court ruling last month, and a part of the law it ruled out.

It's supposed to be a health care program for the poor. But over the years, the definition of poor has changed.

The recent Supreme Court ruling has a lot of health care providers scrambling to deal with more patients.

Congress votes on repealing Obamacare for the 33rd time. Are symbolic votes worth the cost to taxpayers?

It's been almost two weeks since the Supreme Court ruled President Obama's health care overhaul constitutional. Today Texas Governor Rick Perry has officially announced his plans to opt out of the Medicaid expansion and insurance exchanges included in the Affordable Care Act.