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U.S. Bans Health Insurance Company Fine Print, Allows Baffling Terms

The Obama administration aims to demystify shopping for health insurance and has created a standard form that explains in plain language without the fine print what plans actually cover.

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Caitlin Padula: The Affordable Care Act: Preventing Chronic Diseases

This article was co-authored by Rachel Gielau, Healthy Futures Associate, AmeriCorps VISTA, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law .

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Wendell Potter: The Battle for Vermont's Health--And Why It Matters for the Rest of the Country

They're hidden from view and probably always will be.

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Why the Health Care Law Is Constitutional

By now, the United States Supreme Court is being flooded with briefs from the parties and their supporters in the cases that will decide whether the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act (ACA) ("Obamacare") will remain the law of the land or not.

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Supreme Court Leaves Clues How It Will Decide Health Reform

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll published as the Supreme Court went into mid-term recess last week reveals that nearly 60 percent of Americans think the justices will be guided by ideology rather than legal analysis when they decide the constitutionality of Affordable Care Act's controversial individual mandate requiring...

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02/10/12 Roman Catholic TV Network Files Suit Against HHS... Source: Stop the ACLU Reuters ) A U.S. Roman Catholic television network said on Thursday it has filed suit in federal court to block President Barack Obama's new rule on contraceptives, while a Catholic Church leader and top Republicans stepped up their criticism of Obama.
02/10/12 Your health plan explained, minus the fine print Source: Bangor Daily News - Bangor ME WASHINGTON â Don't have the slightest clue what your health insurance covers?
02/10/12 VCU program reduces cost and utilization of ED among... Source: News-Medical.Net The cost of caring for the uninsured population who will gain coverage through the Affordable Care Act of 2014 can be reduced by almost half once the act is implemented, according to a new study from Virginia Commonwealth University researchers.
02/10/12 Holden: Obama made a mistake on PPACA Source: Standard Speaker - Hazleton PA U.S. Rep Tim Holden, D-17, believes the Obama administration has made a mistake in trying to force religious organizations to include what they believe to be immoral in health insurance they offer to employees.
02/10/12 Health mandate should respect religious views Source: The Daily World - Opelousas LA If there's one policy issue that can enflame tempers and divide people as much as abortion, it's the role that government should play, or should not play, in religious affairs.

Background on health care reform

Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes—for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place.

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