The Supreme Court has agreed to another challenge of the Affordable Care Act—and will determine how far the federal government can extend its program of subsidies to buyers of health insurance, according to SCOTUSblog, the official blog of the U.S. Supreme Court. 

The Obama administration is planning to close a loophole in the Affordable Care Act which allows larger companies to refuse to cover in-patient hospital stays in their insurance plans, an anonymous source told USA Today.

The re-election of Republican governors in Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, Maine and Kansas narrows prospects for Medicaid expansion in those states, according to Tampa Bay Times.

The Obama administration is set to ask Congress for about $6.2 billion in emergency funding to stem the spread of Ebola, reports Bloomberg.

Massachusetts and the federal government have reached a five-year, $41.4 billion healthcare accord, which will follow a three-year $26.75 billion waiver agreement that expired June 30, reports WBUR.

A data analysis by The New York Times reveals that more than 3 million people would have received insurance across 24 states if the Supreme Court had ruled differently in 2012.

 A judge has ruled that Kaci Hickox, a Maine nurse who had treated Ebola patients, does not have to be fully quarantined, reports The Washington Post.  

The federal government has opened a new health insurance portal for small businesses in five states—Delaware, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey and Ohio—after a one-year delay for small-employer health plans, according to The Wall Street Journal.