Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News
Parliamentarian ruling could prompt bill's authors to delete language before it hits Senate floor, or prompt GOP to go 'nuclear' to pass it.
Defying expectations, the court announced last week it has agreed to hear a case that challenges the heart of the Affordable Care Act: subsidies to help people pay their insurance premiums.
The Affordable Care Act wasn't directly on the ballot in any state, but voters did decide a host of health-related issues in the 2014 mid-term elections. And there was no clear theme to what won and lost.
Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won't run out of money until 2030. That's four years later than projected last year and 13 years later than projected the year before the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Back in March, on the day he signed the healthcare overhaul into law, President Obama conceded that the administration still had a lot of educating to do.