health care reform

We talk to Marketplace's health reporter Gregory Warner what parts of the health care reform law will come to effect this year.

The Obama administration is giving states more flexibility in implementing the health care reform law, but that won't help governors plug one of their biggest immediate budget problems: Runaway Medicaid costs.

There's one legislative issue lawmakers on both sides of the aisle overwhelmingly agree on: The onerous 1099 tax-reporting mandate that snuck into the health-care reform bill has to be repealed.

Out-of-pocket expenses for retirees will go down, thanks to health care reform, but a 65-year-old couple will still need a big chunk of savings to ensure the bills are paid.

It's one of the promises on which House Republicans campaigned: If elected, we will repeal health care reform.

Federal agencies figure out how to implement legislation once they've been passed by Congress. But the lack of funding for agencies will mean that laws, like health care reform, may not be carried out properly.

The Department of Health and Human Services is grappling with that question. The health care reform bill that passed says that at least 80 percent of all premiums must go towards care, but doesn't define what care constitutes of.

Provisions of the health care reform law that took effect Sept. 23 prohibit some of the insurance industry's most controversial practices.

The federal government unveiled details this week about how people up to age 26 can get covered by their parents' health insurance policies, as part of the health care reform law.

Here are 13 changes in the massive overhaul that could affect your tax bill, for better or worse.