Some consumers and businesses might see a little extra cash this summer as a result of the 2010 health care law. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported an estimated $1.3 billion in rebates will be delivered from health insurers who spent more than the law allotted on administrative expenses and profits.

Two years after its passage, President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains a hot-button issue. Does the law's requirement that every American obtain health insurance violate the constitution?

The belief that health insurance and the increased use of primary care associated with it leads to fewer hospitalizations has played an important role in the recent health care reform debate.

The latest Census figures show the United States now has 49.9 million uninsured, an increase of nearly 1 million over the preceding year. Both in terms of absolute numbers and the percentage of Americans without coverage, this is the highest figure recorded since the Bureau began asking questions about health insurance in its annual survey three decades ago.

There may be some efforts to slow down IPAB implementation by refusing to feed it with funding. So the likelihood is that this may die a slow, quiet death over several years, as opposed to the great horrors that people are imagining.

Does increased use of technology in itself cause more rapid growth in US health care expenditures as a share of the economy, compared to other countries?

President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.