Obamacare, the biggest change in the nation’s health-care system in decades, is upon us.
With the health-insurance marketplaces scheduled to open for enrollment Oct. 1, millions of Americans, and officials at all levels of government, are trying to figure out what the sweeping Affordable Care Act means for them. On Jan. 1, the law goes into full effect.
Over the coming months and years, The Washington Post will follow the administration’s efforts to promote the legislation and examine the implementation of the law at the federal and state levels, as well as the continued political fight in Congress.
Check back regularly for the latest news on the health-care overhaul.
More information:
How will the health-care exchanges work?
How to buy insurance if you live in Virginia
Two important questions for Obamacare right now are how well are the the marketplaces working? And how much will that matter for the law?
A youth group with financial ties to the right-wing billionaire Koch brothers has launched the campaign.
The stimulus was “bipartisan” too.
But the stopgap spending bill is expected to be changed by the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius didn’t seem to be getting ahead of herself when she addresses a nursing convention.
Politicians bring it up continually. Groups have spent millions of dollars promoting — and denouncing — it on television. President Obama is out lauding it virtually every week....
Conservatives who won’t yield against Obamacare might ultimately prove to be the law’s best friends.