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WASHINGTON — Defending President Barack Obamas signature health care overhaul, the administration is urging the Supreme Court to uphold the contentious heart of the law, the requirement that individuals buy insurance or pay a penalty.

The administration filed a written submission with the court Friday describing the 2010 law as an appropriate response to a crisis in the national healthcare market.

The justices will hear arguments in the high courts biggest case this term over three days in late March. The outcome, expected in late June, has the potential to affect President Barack Obamas bid for re-election.

One federal appeals court struck down the so-called individual...

In context, what hes clearly saying is that the problem with the health insurance market is that its too difficult for an unhappy customer to firer his insurance company. This is not at all what hes being attacked for saying. But the logic of his remark points straight toward ObamaCare, Old RomneyCare, and the dread individual mandate. People tend to bop along, more or less happy with their health insurance coverage, and then they get sick. Suddenly it turns out that their insurer is not that interested in expending vast sums of money on the most aggressive possible forms of treatment. They wont cover this, they wont cover that, its a bummer. But you cant just get sick, get denied coverage,...

Wild premium increases and threats of worse to come may prove fatal for the health insurance industry, writes
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TO SAY THE Irish health insurance market is in a state of confused crisis is a gross understatement but one thing all providers, and even perhaps the Government, appear to agree on is that consumers should just keep on coughing up.

One of the three main operators in the market has changed hands twice in four years while over a slightly longer period the State fought a long legal battle to exert more control over the market. And lost.

The range of treatments covered under popular policies has changed and then changed again while other policies have...

The government adopted a draft law regulating the payment system of health insurance premiums for farmers and their household members.