What's at Stake for Medicaid as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform?

If the Supreme Court strikes down the health care reform law, about 49 million Medicare patients could lose a variety of benefits that have already kicked in, including prescription savings, preventive services and wellness visits.

A provision in the 2010 health care law requiring contraceptive coverage for women without copays has gotten most of the press. But much more is at stake for women if the Supreme Court overturns the health care law. Here's an overview.

Monday morning came and went, and again the Supreme Court issued no decisions on the two cases that will define this year's term: immigration in Arizona and national health care reform.

Since the health care law passed two years ago, government, states, insurers, doctors and hospitals have been building a complex scaffolding to extend insurance to 30 million more Americans. What would happen to those groups if the Supreme Court strikes down all or part of the law?

A Supreme Court decision is expected within the next two weeks on challenges to the 2010 federal health law. Parts of the law have already been implemented but the bulk of it won't take effect until 2014. Here's your guide to some of the key provisions that apply to consumers.

"We Were Here," a documentary scheduled to air on PBS this week, tells the stories of four men and one woman -- young in the 1970s, now middle aged -- who lived through the horror of those years.

Actuaries from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimate that health spending will account for 19.6 percent of the gross domestic product in 2021, up from 17.9 percent in 2010.

Part Two: Washington's HIV infection rates are comparable to many African countries, which have provided critical insight into the epidemic.

UnitedHealthcare, one of the country's largest health insurers, said Monday it would keep several provisions of the federal health reform law intact, whether the Supreme Court rejects it or not. Ray Suarez and Health Affairs editor Susan Dentzer discuss how the court's impending decision will affect Americans' health care.