affordable health care

One of the biggest political question marks going into 2012 is the fate of the Affordable Health Care for America Act.

Audie Cornish speaks with Noam Levey of the Los Angeles Times about what's ahead for Americans in terms of health care in the new year, including a constitutional challenge to the law's mandatory health care provision.

The White House is reportedly looking into whether under the Affordable Health Care Act, it can require insurance companies to offer free contraceptives and family planning as a preventive service.

Experts say 50 percent of pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended.

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President Obama is trying to keep the momentum behind his efforts to overhaul the nation's health care system. An estimate by the Congressional Budget Office this week suggested that current plans won't save the government any money.

The administration jumped into action on Friday and proposed ways to reduce federal spending further. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

The Virginia Organizing Project is working to mobilize people to lobby for more affordable health care. Health care reform is on President Obama's priority list, but one organizer says it's not just who's in the White House that matters, it's people raising "the level of fuss."

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