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When health insurance companies delivered the bad news this fall about next year's premium increases, many blamed the new health overhaul law. But industry experts say that the health law accounts for only a small part of the increases.
Three top pollsters - two Democrats and a Republican - have very different takes on what impact the health law will have on the election.
President Obama signed the health law in March and told voters to read up on it. But opponents of the law have done most of the educating on what it means, sometimes in ads with false claims.
When Democrats passed their health overhaul bill back in March, they hailed it as the biggest domestic achievement since Medicare. But seven months later, most of the noise about the new law on the campaign trail is coming from opponents
Planned Parenthood and other groups are launching a campaign to include prescription contraception as part of the preventive services required in the new health law.
Financial and health policy analysts who gathered for the 15th annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference reached a surprising meeting of the minds on the new health care law.
In their blueprint for governing should they win in November, House Republicans called for repeal of the health law.
Among the provisions of the new law is a ban on the industry practice of revoking an insurance policy retroactively-after a policy holder has racked up hefty medical bills. But consumer advocates worry the practice could continue.
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