Maria Cruz had never heard the word autism until her daughter, Shirley, was diagnosed as a toddler.

President Barack Obama's health care law uses the tax system to subsidize coverage for the uninsured.

Potential complications await consumers as President Barack Obama's health care law approaches its second open enrollment season, just two months away.

The sales pitch for the health law is getting an overhaul for the fall.

The latest volley in the war over Proposition 45, the November ballot initiative to regulate health insurance rate hikes, is over intervenors who play an obscure role in the state's process for overseeing insurance.

In California, health insurance is already thoroughly regulated by the state.