ObamaCare's rule that insurance companies spend no less than 80 percent to 85 percent of premiums on medical care has allowed many consumers to pay less for their coverage, according to a new analysis. 

The Kaiser Family Foundation studied the figure, called the medical loss ratio (MLR), and reported that it led to $1.9 billion in premium savings and $1.1 billion in consumer rebates last year. 

Health insurers can satisfy the ratio rule by either lowering premiums to reflect less spending on administrative costs and profits or by issuing rebates to policyholders. 

Most of the young, healthy people whose premiums will rise under President Obama's healthcare law will be eligible for tax credits to help with the added costs, according to a new analysis.

The analysis, released Thursday by the consulting firm Avalere Health, found that two-thirds of young, uninsured adults will be eligible for subsidies under the healthcare law. 

Young, healthy people are critical to the law's success — the law aims to bring them into the system to help offset the costs of guaranteeing coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.

Federal health officials credited ObamaCare on Thursday for enabling $14.9 billion in healthcare fraud recoveries in the last four years. 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that it has kicked 14,663 illicit providers and suppliers out of Medicare since March 2011, one year after the law was signed. 

The number of expulsions from Medicare has more than doubled in 35 states and quadrupled in 18 since healthcare reform became law, the agency said. 

Forty-nine percent of people in a new poll called the healthcare law a bad idea.

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Congressional Republicans have been pressing Sebelius to intervene in Sarah Murnaghan's case since last week.

Gomez expressed support for a 24-hour waiting period, and said he'd be willing to support an anti-abortion Supreme Court nominee.

Both of the staffers have worked to implement the healthcare law, according to congressional sources.

The rest of the eight-member group vows to move forward with work on legislation.