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The Healthcare Council for the Illinois Chamber of Commerce is helping businesses sort out the details -- and taking on some surprising forms of advocacy.

Some part-time college instructors in the Chicago area are worried they’ll have their hours cut by schools who don’t want to pay for health care.

It doesn't matter what the Supreme Court said or how the voters voted. The GOP's obsession with repealing Obamacare goes on. In South Carolina, they're trying to criminalize implementing the law.

A federal judge in Chicago has temporarily blocked the U.S. government from requiring an Illinois for-profit company to provide health insurance that covers birth control.

Obama says the decision upholds the fundamental principle that in America — the wealthiest nation on earth — no one should fall into financial ruin because of an illness. Presumed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney countered that "Obamacare was bad policy yesterday; it's bad policy today."

Normally we tend to think of rural women's issues in the context of the developing world. But in America rural women also struggle. One of the big factors in rural poverty is the lack of access to decent health services.

There's been a lot of talk about contraception in the past couple weeks, most of it serious. Paper Machete co-founder Ali Weiss Klingler felt the best way for her to tackle it would be through humor.