Author: Kalup Alexander

Businesses in five states received early access Monday to select features at ObamaCare's online health insurance marketplace for small employers.

U.S. small businesses are dropping health insurance for their workers, as Obamacare lets them send employees to new marketplaces where they can often get subsidies from the government to buy coverage.

For Carolyn Oatman, enrolling in Medicaid this year was "a dream come true."

Less than three weeks before Covered California kicks off its second open enrollment, there are problems with the website.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi covered plenty of territory in her meeting with The Chronicle's Editorial Board on Monday, but one issue made her more animated than any other: state Proposition 45's threat to the landmark federal health care law she shepherded through Congress in 2010.

After a year fully in place, the Affordable Care Act has largely succeeded in delivering on President Obama's main promises, an analysis by a team of reporters and data researchers shows.

In the past year, new hepatitis C drugs that promise higher cure rates and fewer side effects have given hope to millions who are living with the disease.

Ouch -- the cost of workers' compensation in California is more expensive than any other state in the nation, a new study says.

With health insurance marketplaces about to open for 2015 enrollment, the Obama administration has told insurance companies that it will delay requirements for them to disclose data on the number of people enrolled, the number of claims denied and the costs to consumers for specific services.

Family medicine doctors are joining forces to win a bigger role in health care – and be paid for it.