This will be the first open enrollment after federal moves got rid of the individual mandate fee for not having insurance.

Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, was in Indianapolis to promote changes to Medicare.

A coalition of groups working to preserve the Affordable Care Act, ACA, has two stops in Indiana on its first nationwide bus tour this week.

The most recent national data show the state holding at 8 percent of Hoosiers without medical insurance.

The court says a rule created by the Obama administration basically forced states to pay the fee indirectly - through payments each state makes to its Medicaid providers.

Indiana is one of 20 states in a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The Trump administration announced in June it would no longer defend the federal health care law.

Hoosiers who buy insurance on the insurance marketplace established by the Affordable Care Act can expect higher premiums next year.

The U.S. Department of Justice sided with 20 states, including Indiana, that claim the individual mandate is unconstitutional and so some cost regulations should fail as well.

Grace College and Seminary has won its long-running lawsuit seeking religious exemption from paying for employees' birth control under former President Barack Obama's health care law.

Medicaid, a government-provided free health insurance program, is for low-income adults, those with disabilities who cannot work and others who meet specific criteria. Under the Affordable Care Act, states also have the right to expand Medicaid based on income alone.