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Bill Frist Tells Republicans to Drop Efforts to Repeal Health Care Reform

Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has a message for Republicans moving to repeal President Obama's landmark health care reform law: Don't.

'Obamacare' Mandates Declared Unconstitutional: First Reactions

(Dec. 13) -- Does mandatory health insurance go against the U.S. Constitution? Virginia U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled today that the coverage mandates in President Barack Obama's signature health care legislation "exceed the constitutional boundaries of congressional power," a potential setback for the...

Donald Berwick: 5 Questions About Obama's Recess Appointment, Answered

The White House announced Tuesday evening that President Obama would be using a recess appointment to place Donald Berwick, the administration's nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in office. The position has been vacant since 2006, but the choice of Berwick has caused an uproar from...

Dobson's Successor Gives Mega-Ministry New Focus

COLORADO SPRINGS (April 24) -- Jim Daly is certain there is "a right way and a wrong way" to live one's life, and it's all about Jesus Christ and a literal reading of the Bible. But the new leader of the evangelical ministry Focus on the Family isn't going to get in your face if you disagree. At a time when the...

Muslims Are Exempt (and More 'Obamacare' Myths)

WASHINGTON (April 20) -- Prepare to have microchips implanted in your body. Unless you are a Muslim, in which case you are exempt. Everyone else -- you could soon have one of 16,500 armed IRS agents knocking at your door. Those and other myths are still swirling around the health care law, according to a new report by the...

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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 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 Consumer-friendly health plan briefs required Source: Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque IA WASHINGTON -- Don't have the slightest clue what your health insurance covers?
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.
02/10/12 Nancy Pelosi: Conservatives Are Using Religious... Source: Say Anything House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that religious liberty objections to the Obamacare rule mandating that all health insurance policies â except those for clergy and church employees â pay for sterilization and FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that induce abortion, were an "excuse."