Health Insurance

President Barack Obama Tuesday launched an unusual mission to woo lawmakers on Capitol Hill, but budget clashes with Republicans underscored the difficulty of striking a grand deficit bargain.

The White House warned Tuesday that a new Republican budget plan did not add up, would hike taxes on the middle class or fail to cut the deficit and would be sure to hurt healthcare for the elderly.

"Bosnia's best actor lives here," says a brightly coloured cardboard sign hung on a tree, near where the village's asphalt road turns into the muddy path that leads to a Roma slum.

The US government has not denied health insurance to the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden despite a magazine article that implied otherwise, officials said Wednesday.

The US Congress on Thursday suspended the country's debt ceiling until May, giving lawmakers three months for high-stakes budget negotiations and averting a potentially catastrophic default.

President Barack Obama may have defeated opponents of his landmark health care law in the courts and at the ballot box, but the sweeping reforms still face a rocky road ahead.

President Barack Obama warned Republicans Tuesday there would be no deal on averting a potentially disastrous fiscal crisis without them caving in to his demand to raise tax rates on the rich.

Republicans laid out a plan for closing the huge US deficit that raises half the income proposed by President Barack Obama and opposes a tax rate increase for the rich.

Republicans laid out a plan for closing the huge US deficit that raises half the income proposed by President Barack Obama and opposes a tax rate increase for the rich.

A sense of deja vu gripped Washington Monday as Democrats and Republicans locked in who-blinks-first brinkmanship over taxes and spending, with pundits warning of economic chaos unless a deal is struck.

The US Supreme Court ordered a lower court Monday to review a Christian university's challenge to President Barack Obama's landmark health care reforms on grounds they violate religious freedom.

The US Supreme Court instructed a lower court Monday to review a Christian university's challenge to President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare reforms on grounds that it violates religious freedom.

US House Speaker John Boehner used Twitter on Thursday to ride back on earlier comments that suggested he was ready to drop Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's health care reforms.

US House Speaker John Boehner suggested Thursday he was ready to drop Republican efforts to repeal landmark health care reform now that President Barack Obama has won re-election.

Dallas County has approved a plan to subsidize the health insurance plans of gay workers in a domestic partnership. Dallas County has approved a plan to subsidize the health insurance plans of gay workers in a domestic partnership. In a 3-2 party line vote on Tuesday, the County Commissioners Court approved giving employees in a domestic relationship who do not have insurance through other means a $300 monthly subsidy to go towards their health insurance, the same amount the county contributes to employees who are married. Workers in both gay or straight relationships are eligible for the benefit, gay weekly The Dallas Voice reported. The court's Republican minority voted against the plan. ?Are we going to fund obese people?? asked Republican Commissioner Maurine Dickey. ?Are we going to start funding smokers? Are we going to fund people who have blue Pontiacs?? A qualifying domestic partnership is defined by the county as one in which the couple have been living together at least six

American health insurance and services company UnitedHealth will purchase a 90-percent stake in Brazil's top private health care provider Amil Participacoes, for about $4.9 billion, the US firm said in a statement Monday.

American health insurance and services company UnitedHealth will purchase a 90-percent stake in Brazil's top private health care provider Amil Participacoes, for about $4.9 billion, the US firm said in a statement Monday.

With its array of services, the walk-in clinic on a tree-lined street in Brooklyn is a one-stop shop for the health needs of the working poor.

A $5 trillion tax cut, a doubling of the deficit, a $716 billion Medicare raid. Were the slings and arrows of the first US presidential debate pin-point accurate attacks, or fact-defying hocus pocus?

From the moment Mitt Romney mistakenly introduced his running mate Paul Ryan to the world as "the next president of the United States," one word has routinely described the pairing: awkward.