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.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
AP IMPACT: Health overhaul lags in states (AP)
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.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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.
View full post on NYDN Rss Article only
America hits the brakes on health care spending (AP)
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.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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.”
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Thomas, Kagan asked to sit out health care case (AP)
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.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Supreme Court: Pre-election health care showdown (AP)
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.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
