The law will require Americans to have health insurance, with a few exceptions, or pay a fine starting in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

"Every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests fight back with everything they've got.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

For the first time, Americans will be required to have health insurance or face a yearly fine starting in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Their ideas include permitting Americans to shop for health insurance in other states and expanding health care savings accounts.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

He signed the bill Tuesday at the White House, before Democratic lawmakers and people with stories of health insurance problems.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Also,in four years,employers with more than fifty workers will have to offer their employees a health insurance plan.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

If we do not act, fourteen thousand Americans will continue to lose their health insurance every single day."

VOA: special.2009.07.25

today,after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

The Census Bureau says more than forty-six million Americans, about fifteen and a half percent, did not have health insurance last year.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

President Obama is letting Congress write the details of his plan for what he calls health insurance reform.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Many critics say Wal-Mart fails to pay its workers fairly or provide them with enough health insurance.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

People not covered by employer plans, Medicaid or Medicare could buy health insurance in marketplaces called exchanges.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

In all,the plan aims to make health insurance available to thirty-two million people now without it.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Individuals would be required to have basic health insurance, the way most states require automobile insurance.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

Two goals are to expand health insurance to millions of Americans who do not have it, and to control rising costs for those who do.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Among other things,it will extend health insurance coverage to thirty-two million Americans now without it.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

It provides medical services to low-earning citizens who do not have health insurance.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

Yet the Lacks family had very little money, education or health insurance.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Health insurance plans rarely pay for this form of therapy.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

But he notes it is mainly health insurance reform.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

Almost forty-six million have no health insurance at all.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

And that health insurance is tax-funded, particularly for the poor, so that what happens is the insurance now pays the cost that the people would have paid previously out of their own pockets."

VOA: special.2010.11.24

"This is something,after all, that first came to the attention of the American public one hundred years ago when a national health insurance program was proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and successive presidents, mostly Democrats but not all, have favored it."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

In a country where most medical care is provided by the private sector, both mandate health insurance for all.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Senators return at seven o'clock Thursday morning to vote on the bill, which would provide about access to health insurance coverage.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

The legislation would require most Americans to purchase health insurance and provide subsidies to those who cannot afford it.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

"Every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests fight back with everything they have got.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

Mr.Obama said the health insurance industry is mounting what he calls "one last fight to save the status quo."

VOA: standard.2009.10.17