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Santorum warns Florida seniors that Obama health care law will force doctors …
Santorum tried to draw a connection between Medicare and a key provision of the health care law, the so-called individual mandate, which doesn't affect older Americans because virtually all of them are already covered through the government program.
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How to wipe out health coverage for the poor
22] is right that the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion is important. He is wrong, however, to urge unprecedented judicial activism that would invalidate the expansion. Medicaid is the health program for the poor.
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Thompson and Terry seek to expand access to rural health care
WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Mike Thompson (CA-1) and Lee Terry (NE-2) on Thursday introduced bipartisan legislation increasing rural communities' access to high quality health care. The bipartisan “Medicare Hospice Access Care Act,” allows …
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One year later: Healthcare law proving naysayers wrong
The Affordable Care Act finally put an end to one of the most abusive practices of the insurance industry: retroactively canceling coverage for a sick patient based on an unintentional mistake in their paperwork. Before the health care law was signed, …
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State to return million federal grant in dispute over health care law
The money was part of a larger federal package that was given to Wisconsin to implement the federal health care law passed by Congress and President Barack Obama in 2010. After receiving criticism from conservatives that he was helping implement …
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Health decision a win for women
The administration on Friday stood behind a measure requiring that contraception be included as part of required preventive care that employers providing insurance must cover under the new health care law. Following the recommendation of the Health and …
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Dems Pin Fate Of Health Care Law On 2012 Election
Your second paragraph is an argument for Obamacare. Facts not on the side of Republicans? That one statement alone shows whey Sibilius is worthless. She lied through her teeth to get that horrible bill passed and now accuses the opposition of lying. …
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Previewing the Republican debate in Tampa
We compared the two versions and found Romney made only minor changes to his comments on health care, mostly to account for the fact that the national plan had become law. We rated Santorum's statement Mostly False. Santorum also often argues that …
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SC GOP Debate Gets Heavy On Health Care Issues: Video and Transcript
It was a government-run health care system that was the basis of Obamacare, and it has been an abject failure. And he has stood by it. He's stood by the fact that it's $ 8 billion more expensive… … than under the current law. He stood by the fact …
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Dems Pin Fate Of Health Care Law On 2012 Election
President Obama's health secretary Kathleen Sebelius made a spirited defense of the health care reform law Thursday — one of several signs that Democrats are stepping up their defense of the law ahead of a 2012 election cycle in which Republicans plan …
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One year later: Healthcare law proving naysayers wrong
Before the health care law was signed, most of the 15 million people purchasing coverage in the individual market were vulnerable to this policy. Rescission often leaves people suddenly responsible for past expenses and with no coverage to pay for …
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Pasch Calls Walker's Decision to Return Million for Health Care Law 'Radical'
Scott Walker's decision to turn away $ 38 million in federal dollars earmarked to implement the national health care reform law radical, and said he is playing politics with resident's health, in a statement Wednesday. “This brazen attempt to score …
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Eleven states, D.C. back Obama on health law
By Paige Winfield Cunningham President Obama signs the health care bill at the White House on March 23, 2010, flanked smiling supporters from the House and Senate, and Vicki Kennedy (behind Mr. Obama's right shoulder), widow of Sen. …
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GOP looks to formally terminate healthcare law's CLASS program
By Pete Kasperowicz – 01/17/12 12:25 PM ET House Republicans returned this week with their sights on terminating a part of the 2010 healthcare law the Obama administration has acknowledged is unworkable. The House Ways & Means Committee this week will …
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AHRQ: US healthcare spending highly concentrated
Individuals in the bottom half of the healthcare spending distribution had a mean expenditure of $ 232. The total healthcare bill in the US was $ 1.26 trillion in 2009, according to AHRQ. “Studies that examine the persistence of high levels of …
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Obama administration wins plaudits from healthcare law critics
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius with President Obama. Explaining the administration's approach in rolling out the healthcare law, Sebelius said, “We have consistently worked to hold down premiums and protect existing coverage …
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Federal health care law's repeal on agenda of ND GOP House candidates | The …
AP VALLEY CITY, ND — Repealing the recent federal health care law is on the agenda of North Dakota's five Republican candidates for the US House. The candidates debated Wednesday night at Valley City State University. Public Service Commissioner Brian …
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Medicare drops Sunshine Law proposals
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled a Sunshine Law proposal that would require device and drug makers to report all payments made to certain health care providers. As part of health reforms contained in the Affordable Care Act, …
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What The Health Care Law Will Mean for Your Small Business
By EMILY MALTBY As a small-business owner, you may find your head spinning when trying to figure out what the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may bring. How the new provisions impact you, if at all, depends on the outcome of a high-profile …
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Nelson: Health care reform law saving Nebraska seniors millions
At the beginning of this year, as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicare beneficiaries in the Part D "doughnut hole" became eligible for a 50 percent discount on name-brand drugs, free preventive services such as …
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Affordable Care Act caters to the unique needs of women
Greaney explained through SHIP, women receive a few of the services that will be federally mandated by the Affordable Health Care Act. “Students with SHIP actually have the preventative benefit of the wellness exam being covered at 100 percent, …
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Obama Touts Health-Care Law Before Donors While Mum With Voters
23 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama is using passage of the health-care law to help him get re-elected. He's just not making the sales pitch in public. Asked at a Nov. 13 press conference in Kapolei, Hawaii, about whether he was concerned about …
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Obama administration calls on health insurer to reduce rate hike
Using a tool in the new healthcare law for the first time, officials call the 12% increase 'unreasonable.' Reporting from Washington — The Obama administration called on a health insurance company to reduce a planned rate increase in Pennsylvania, …
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Health care recusal is the judges' call
There is a lot of speculation regarding whether Justices Elena Kagan or Clarence Thomas should recuse themselves from the Supreme Court case on President Barack Obama's health care law. Kagan, for her part, was Obama's solicitor general at the time the …
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Fraud experts say health insurance scams are on the rise as criminals quickly exploit consumers’ confusion over how the new health care law changes their insurance coverage.
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Health reform’s side effect: Scams
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WASHINGTON — The new health care law wasn’t supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the US with coverage for generations. But last week a leading manufacturer told workers their costs will jump partly …
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Health Care: Will Employers Drop Coverage As Reforms Are Enacted?