Now that President Obama has been reelected, it appears the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, is here to stay. And as annual open enrollment ­periods get underway at many companies, both employees and employers face changes in health insurance coverage and requirements over the next two years. Read >

Some health policy analysts and provider groups cheered last year when results from a 2010 national survey of employers showed that Massachusetts no longer had the most expensive health insurance coverage in the country. But the latest survey data show that the family plans offered through Massachusetts employers once again cost more, on average, than in any other state. Read >

The nation's eyes may have been more focused on Washington on Tuesday night, but issues on ballots across the country were shaping health policy in the states. Read >

If the election had gone the other way, health reporters across the country would have spent the rest of the week -- and many to come -- reporting on what happens to national health care policy now, with a likely Mitt Romney-led push to repeal at least a large part of the Affordable Care Act. Read >

Something really important happened in Massachusetts today — something that has nothing to do with the final throes of the Brown-Warren Senate race. Read >