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User-friendly health plan summaries at risk (AP)

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:42:27 +0000

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)

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:54:33 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:42:30 +0000

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)

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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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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Health issues force Uncle Mo into retirement

admin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:51:24 +0000

Uncle Mo, the champion 2-year-old of 2010, has been retired after finishing 10th in Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. The decision was made after blood tests taken on Sunday showed that the gamma-glutamyltransferase enzyme was elevated.

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Health overhaul law suffers first major casualty (AP)

admin — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:57:21 +0000

AP – The Obama administration’s signature health overhaul law, under relentless assault by Republicans, has suffered its first major casualty — a long-term care insurance plan.

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