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Opinion: Health Reform Will Survive in the Courts

As America struggled to emerge from the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt threw his reputation behind a sweeping new safety net for seniors called Social Security -- and the courts quickly rebelled. The law was unprecedented, wrote U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Scott Wilson. Worse, said Wilson, it seizes power...

Opinion: Winning the Future With Health Care Reform

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama outlined a plan to help America win the future. But some in Congress are still intent on refighting the political battles of the past two years by trying to repeal the health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With millions of Americans already benefiting from the...

Six Health Care Changes That Go Into Effect Soon

(Sept. 22) -- The wait is over. A new era of health care coverage in America is set to begin this week, when some provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act officially begin to be enforced by law. Many of the changes will be phased in over the next several years, but the debate over whether the...

Opinion: Seniors Are Losing Access to Medicare Docs

(June 22) -- In March, Washington looked America squarely in the eye and promised the $1 trillion health care overhaul would reduce the deficit and save Medicare. Moreover, our political leaders assured seniors they could keep their physician. Now reality sets in. None of this was true. When lawmakers said the Patient...

Background on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), informally referred to as Obamacare, is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The law (along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010) is the principal health care reform legislation of the 111th United States Congress.

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