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America hits the brakes on health care spending (AP)

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:14:55 +0000

AP – 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)

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:22:03 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:48:31 +0000

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)

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:16:08 +0000

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)

admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:55:24 +0000

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)

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:21:41 +0000

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)

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:07:54 +0000

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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House votes to stop health care law abortions (AP)

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:22:35 +0000

AP – The House on Thursday returned to an abortion issue that nearly sank President Barack Obama’s health care law last year with legislation that bars an insurance plan regulated under the new law from covering abortion if any of its customers receive federal subsidies.

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Health care law looms over new Supreme Court term (AP)

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:38:46 +0000

AP – The nine justices of the Supreme Court, who serve without seeking election, soon will have to decide whether to insert themselves into the center of the presidential campaign next year.

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Gingrich calls for changes in taxes, health care (AP)

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:11:07 +0000

AP – Hoping to revive his flagging bid for the Republican presidential nomination, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is calling for an overhaul of the way Americans pay taxes, buy health care and contribute to the Social Security system.

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