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The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the new set of federal rules signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Despite the claim that current health care plans are "grandfathered" in under PPACA, the U.S. Departments of HHS, Labor & Treasury just issued new regulations on "grandfathered" health plans, and some trigger the mandate to have a government approved plan.

Under PPACA "grandfathered" plans would still be required to comply with certain reforms, and individuals who choose to enroll in these plans would not be able to use tax credits, essentially allowing these plans to wither on the vine...

Wanda C. Rohm, the retired former owner of a San Antonio print shop, is skeptical of promises that the new federal health law will help small employers.

Her skepticism is hard won. A decade ago, she experienced a small-business owner's nightmare: A key manager suffered a health crisis, the print shop's health insurance premiums skyrocketed as a consequence, and Rohm's employees abandoned their group health plan...

If you live in Texas, the only health insurance you can buy is insurance regulated under Texas law. But if bills before Congress (most notably, one sponsored by Arizona Republican Congressman John Shadegg), are enacted, Texans would be able to buy insurance regulated, say, by the laws of Virginia, or the laws of Delaware, or 47 other states, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

Democrats have conceded they can no longer pass healthcare on their own, ensuring that their key legislative reform either dies or accepts further compromises to gain approval from Republican members...