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Embattled health insurer Blue Shield of California is planning to give back $167 million to some policyholders this year and to return more money in future years.

The Obama administration, expanding a program created by the new healthcare law, reduces premiums on preexisting condition insurance plans and loosens restrictions on who can sign up for them.

Recent data provided by the nation’s largest health insurance companies reveals that a provision of the Affordable Care Act – or Obamacare – is bringing big numbers of the uninsured into the health care insurance system.

But the Department of Managed Health Care says it can't stop the state's largest for-profit insurer from raising rates for 120,000 customers an average of 16%.A California regulator for the first time has declared a health insurance rate increase "unreasonable" but acknowledged that it can do nothing to stop the state's largest for-profit insurer from going ahead with it.

The Supreme Court refused Monday to bypass the lower courts and take up an immediate challenge to the constitutionality of the national healthcare reform law and its requirement that all those who can afford it have medical insurance by 2014.

Employers and even some younger people would pay more for health insurance if lawmakers raise the eligibility age for Medicare, a study to be released Tuesday concludes....

Analysis marks the government's first attempt to quantify the number of people at risk of being rejected by insurance companies or paying more.

A U.S. district judge's ruling that overthrows a key portion of President Obama's health care law conflicts with other lower-court rulings.

A federal judge today struck down part of President Obama's health law requiring most Americans to purchase health insurance.

If state challenges to the constitutionality of the insurance mandate are successful, they may have the effect of stalling the whole health care overhaul, officials say.