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Obama Health Care Reform

Republicans Zero In On Another Potential White House Scandal

Reuters | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics

* Obama opponents target Sebelius solicitations for group * Approached H&R Block and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation * He...

GOP Senator Blasts Obamacare Move As Potentially 'Illegal'

The Huffington Post | Mollie Reilly | Posted 05.12.2013 | Politics

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) suggested Saturday that Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may have broken the law by seeking donation...

Obamacare Fight Rages On

Reuters | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics

By David Morgan WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - The White House announced a new $150 million initiative on Thursday to get uninsured Am...

Studies: Health Care Spending Slowdown Could Wipe Out One-Fifth Of The Deficit If It Persists

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 05.07.2013 | Business

The U.S. could shrink the deficit by 20 percent if current health care spending trends continue, according to a newly released study in the journal He...

CEO: Obamacare Hurting My Business

Posted 04.22.2013 | Business

Looming changes as a result of Obamacare are making hospital officials hesitant to make big investments, according to the CEO of one company that make...

Persistant Obamacare Opposition Was Unexpected

Reuters | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics

(Adds Sebelius on controlling costs, paragraphs 12-13) By Scott Malone BOSTON, April 8 (Reuters) - The top White House a...

Pandora's Pillbox: Obamacare as Proxy Culture War

J.D. Kleinke | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics
J.D. Kleinke

Our health care system is the dumping ground for all of our worst, unresolved arguments as a society. It is a long, messy list, and runs from the ovary to the grave.

Obama Faces Tall Order As He Seeks To Fulfill Huge Promise

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 03.28.2013 | Politics

-- The issue: Health care was the defining political battle of President Barack Obama's first term, and – after the economy_ it remains his mo...

How Bilingual Brains Think Outside the Boxe(s)

Ben Thomas | Posted 03.25.2013 | Science
Ben Thomas

The more complex a task was, the more strongly the bilingual kids out-scored their monolingual counterparts.

Obamacare Repeal Effort Suffers Huge FAIL

AP | Associated Press | Posted 03.13.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Democratic-controlled Senate has rejected a Republican effort to attach the repeal of President Barack Obama's health care law to a ...

The Minimum Wage, Guns, Health Care and the Meaning of a Decent Society

Robert Reich | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics
Robert Reich

The questions we face -- whether to raise the minimum wage, restrict the availability of guns, expand health care coverage, and countless other decisions -- inevitably require us to define what we mean by a decent society.

A Roadmap for Healthy Citizenship

Marielena HincapiƩ | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
Marielena HincapiƩ

Many of "us" want to ensure that immigrants have the same access to affordable health care and food that we all should have and to not continue to treat immigrants as the "them" through explicit exclusions from basic necessities.

Life Support and Taxes

J.D. Kleinke | Posted 04.08.2013 | Politics
J.D. Kleinke

Making people obtain and maintain health insurance is not the nanny state; it is grow-up time. The nanny state is what we have today, prior to full implementation of Obamacare, and what we have had since the 1986 passage of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

Health Care Exchanges To Transform Market

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 01.27.2013 | Politics

-- Health insurance exchanges will change the way people buy coverage and will help millions of uninsured people get a private plan. Nearly 49 millio...

State's Groundbreaking Health Care Law Serves As Blueprint

AP | STEVE LeBLANC | Posted 01.24.2013 | Politics

BOSTON -- When Massachusetts adopted its landmark health care law in 2006, the goals were ambitious and the potential solutions complex. More than 90...

Obama's Political Legacy: Returning Community As An American Value

Arshad Hasan | Posted 03.23.2013 | Politics
Arshad Hasan

In taking on health care reform Obama made a very clear statement that community is an American value. It is how he chooses to defend and expand Obamacare that will dictate whether he is remembered for his commitment to community or to the special interests of Washington.

On Health Care, Conservatives Protest Too Much

Drew Altman, Ph.D. | Posted 03.21.2013 | Politics
Drew Altman, Ph.D.

Out in the real world of health insurance, beneath the politicized debate about Obamacare, the vision of health insurance that conservatives have always championed -- high deductible plans that give consumers lots of "skin in the game" -- is steadily prevailing in the marketplace.

Will We Have A Health Care System Or A Sick Care System? A Tale Of Two Futures

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 03.21.2013 | Politics
Jeffrey Levi

Either we continue on the track we're on, resigning millions of Americans to major health problems that could have been avoided, or we increase our investment in giving them the opportunity to be healthier and preventing them from developing chronic conditions in the first place.

Harry Reid: Obama Was Willing To Give Up Presidency For Health Care Reform

The Huffington Post | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 01.15.2013 | Politics

As President Barack Obama begins a second term, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) offered candid observations on the president's leadership s...

Scott Reveals Concerns About Obamacare

Examiner | KAREEM GANTT | Posted 01.08.2013 | Politics

Florida Governor Rick Scott went to Washington D.C on January 7 to air out his concerns over the Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare"....

Law That Conflicts With Obama Health Care Reform Blocked

AP | DAVID A. LIEB | Posted 12.22.2012 | Politics

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A federal judge on Friday blocked a new Missouri law that requires insurers to exclude birth control coverage for moral objecto...

Court Rules Conservative Chain Must Cover Emergency Contraceptives

AP | TIM TALLEY | Posted 02.20.2013 | Politics

OKLAHOMA CITY — Hobby Lobby Stores asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to block part of the federal health care law that requires it to provi...

Perry: 'Obamacare May Fail'

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 12.08.2012 | Politics

Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) expressed doubts about President Barack Obama's health care reform, saying he thinks it "may fail" in an interview with ...

The President's Reelection Will Lead to a Healthier America

Dr. Wayne J. Riley | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics
Dr. Wayne J. Riley

Health care for all. That's what President Barack Obama's reelection means to the more than 40 million Americans who either do not have health insurance or do not have enough.

Arthur Delaney

Romney Supporter Turns To Obamacare

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.07.2012 | Politics

Melissa Littlewood of Sarasota, Fla., voted for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney because she thinks the government is becoming too expans...