Posts Tagged ‘Care’

America hits the brakes on health care spending (AP)

Chart shows breakdown of healthcare spendingAP – Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation’s economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday.


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Gov’t defends core of health care overhaul (AP)

AP – The Obama administration defended the health care overhaul in a filing Friday with the Supreme Court that calls the law an appropriate response to a “crisis in the national health care market.”

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When free preventative care ends up costing you a bundle

Bill Dunphy thought his colonoscopy would be free. Then he received a bill for $1,100.

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Plan would lift wages of home care workers (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, where he announced action to provide minimum wage and overtime protections for in-home care workers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP – Workers in the home health care industry — one of the country’s fastest growing professions — would be guaranteed minimum wage and overtime protections under new rules proposed Thursday by the Obama administration.


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Thomas, Kagan asked to sit out health care case (AP)

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2010, file photo the Supreme Court's newest member, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, is seen during a group portrait at the Court in Washington. Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congress say it's Justice Clarence Thomas who should sit it out. Neither justice is budging — the right decision, according to many ethicists and legal experts.   (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP – Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congress say it’s Justice Clarence Thomas who should sit it out.


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Supreme Court: Pre-election health care showdown (AP)

FILE - In this May 3, 2011 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments in March over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, setting up an election-year showdown over the White House's main domestic policy achievement.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP – The Supreme Court on Monday promised an extraordinarily thorough springtime review of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul — more than five hours of argument, unprecedented in modern times — in time for a likely ruling affecting millions of Americans just before the presidential election.


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Supreme Court will hear health care case this term (AP)

AP – The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments next March over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul — a case that could shake the political landscape just as voters are about to decide if Obama deserves another term.

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