Posts Tagged ‘health’

User-friendly health plan summaries at risk (AP)

AP – Consumer groups are scrambling to salvage a popular provision of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that suddenly seems to be in question.

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AP IMPACT: Health overhaul lags in states (AP)

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and senior staff, react in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, as the House passes the health care reform bill, March 21, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)AP – Here’s a reality check for President Barack Obama’s health overhaul: Three out of four uninsured Americans live in states that have yet to figure out how to deliver on its promise of affordable medical care.


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McDonald’s faces opposition in Loma Linda, California, from health advocates and Seventh-day Adventists 

The Loma Linda City Council last month approved a McDonald’s franchise’s application to set up shop, but the proposal has sparked a backlash from residents who think the burger joint will undermine the local culture of physical well-being.

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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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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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