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The enrollment period is now open for getting coverage from the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The signup up period is just six weeks rather than twelve like…
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A new report says repealing the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — would have a disproportionately negative effect in rural parts of Illinois.
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Congressman Darin LaHood (R-Illinois) said he supports the House Republicans’ plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. LaHood said even though 20 million…
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NPR and dozens of member stations are searching for public statements on Twitter and Facebook, on lawmakers' websites and in interviews with public media or other news organizations.
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I'm here today to talk about health insurance. No, not what makes the news -whether to repeal the ACA, cutting Medicare and Medicaid, going to Canada or…
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Following today's ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, Illinois residents who bought health insurance under the affordable care act will get to keep tax...
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Until the federal health insurance marketplace opened in late 2013, farmers and ranchers were more likely to be uninsured than many other occupational…
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Illinois lawmakers missed a Jan. 1 deadline to approve a state-run health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act. Without its own exchange,...
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For this Thanksgiving, last winter’s “polar vortex” became this season’s “bomb cyclone” – meteorologists’ trendy term for an intense, fast-moving storm…
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More than 8 million people nationally signed up for health insurance during the first open enrollment period. That figure includes 5.4 million enrolled…