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Opinion: A Constitutional Right To Health Care

January 5, 2012

In an op-ed for The Record (Bergen Co., New Jersey), Seton Hall professor and policy wonk Frank Pasquale provides sound argument for a constitutional right to health care. Supposing that the Supreme Court eventually sides with ACA opponents and rules that the government has no right to order citizens to purchase health insurance of pay…

Seniors Save Big Thanks To ObamaCare

December 27, 2011

From USA Today: By Kelly Kennedy 12/6/2011 WASHINGTON – More than 2.65 million Medicare recipients have saved more than $1.5 billion on their prescriptions this year, a $569-per-person average, while premiums have remained stable, the government plans to announce today. That’s because of the provision of the health care law that put a 50% discount…

SCOTUS Sets Date For Obamacare Showdown

December 20, 2011

From Politico: The Supreme Court will hear three days of oral arguments. | NIKO DUFFY/POLITICO By JENNIFER HABERKORN The health care showdown of 2012 has been scheduled. The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear three days of oral arguments on various pieces of the health reform law on March 26, 27 and 28…

2.5M Young Adults Gain Health Insurance Via Obamacare – Huzzah!

December 14, 2011

 From The Associated Press: President Obama talks about the Affordable Care Act in Virginia earlier this week. He highlighted provisions, including requirements to let young adults stay on their parents’ insurance plans. (By Dennis Brack, Getty Images) By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR December 14, 2011 Washington – The number of young adults lacking medical coverage has shrunk…

The Individual Mandate’s Shameless Flip-Floppers

December 8, 2011

From The Hill: GOPers Who Were For It Before They Were Against It By Juan Williams 12/05/11 05:15 AM ET What do Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, the leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, have in common? Long before President Obama, both supported an idea they now pretend to spurn — the idea of…

Seniors Realizing ACA’s Benefits, Doughnut-Hole Shrinkage

November 28, 2011

From The Associated Press: By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Sunday, 11.27.11 WASHINGTON — Medicare’s prescription coverage gap is getting noticeably smaller and easier to manage this year for millions of older and disabled people with high drug costs. The “doughnut hole,” an anxiety-inducing catch in an otherwise popular benefit, will shrink about 40 percent for those unlucky…

S.C. Health Insurance Bringing Up The Rear Again

November 23, 2011

From The Health Care Blog: Still ringing true after all these years. By Al Lewis Nov 22, 2011 What makes a state’s health insurance successful for its citizens?   It should be affordable, it should cover a lot of people, and it should manage its members well, keeping people healthy as measured both by preventive care…

Healthcare Costs Driving Americans Into Poverty

November 22, 2011

From The Washington Post: By Drew Altman and Larry Levitt November 18, 2011 Policymakers in Washington are consumed with the federal budget deficit. The Congressional Budget Office serves as the official referee in budget debates, keeping score of how proposed legislation would make the deficit bigger or smaller. But Congress and the public could get a…

Haley’s Panel: No State Health Insurance ‘Exchange’ For S.C.

November 22, 2011

From The Post & Courier: By Renee Dudley [email protected] Friday, November 18, 2011 South Carolina should not manage its own “exchange” where health coverage will be sold once the new federal health care law takes full effect in 2014, a state panel is expected to recommend today. The S.C. Health Planning Committee wants private companies…

The Medicaid Ambush

November 16, 2011

From Slate: The Supreme Court’s unexpected and astounding reasons for wanting to hear a challenge to Obamacare. By Simon Lazarus and Dahlia Lithwick Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, which means a five-and-a-half-hour oral argument before the court this spring, with a ruling…

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