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Obamacare Starts Cracking the Whip: Are the Wrong People Paying the Price?

Tom Silva | Posted 01.01.2013 | Healthy Living
Tom Silva

Now that Obamacare is real and functioning, we appear to be seeing a real-life example of the correlation-without-causation problem. How do the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services establish that the reason a patient was admitted was because of a hospital's negligence?

A Family Doctor's Vote: Keep Obama(Care)

John Crocker | Posted 12.19.2012 | Politics
John Crocker

As a family doctor, I've been on the front lines of the health care debate for many years. I've witnessed the skyrocketing costs of health care and ho...

Mitt Romney: People Don't 'Die In Their Apartment Because They Don't Have Insurance'

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 10.11.2012 | Business

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who has pledged to repeal Obamacare, says that people without health insurance don't have to worry about ...

Dave Jamieson

How Big Business May Dodge Obamacare

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.11.2012 | Business

Working as a server at a Capital Grille in Tampa, Fla., Kevin Kearney typically picks up more than 30 hours per week, bringing home just enough money ...

Do You Really Know What's In the Health Care Law?

Hadley Heath | Posted 12.09.2012 | Politics
Hadley Heath

How will this health law affect the options we have and our experience when buying insurance and seeking care? Upon close examination, sadly the "benefits" of the law don't seem all that beneficial, and the costs become undeniable.

Obamacare Contraception Mandate Constitutional, Judge Rules

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 10.04.2012 | Business

Obamacare doesn't violate the religious freedom of employers that don't want to cover contraceptives, a federal judge in Missouri has ruled. Frank...

Obamacare Provides Freedom in the Relm of Health: My Personal Example

The Crimson White | Posted 11.18.2012 | College
The Crimson White

Many argue the purchase of health insurance should be a choice. To them, it is a matter of freedom. I understand this concern -- but it's naive to think anyone has the foresight to predict disease.

The Split in Medicine

Dr. Robert A. Kornfeld | Posted 10.30.2012 | Healthy Living
Dr. Robert A. Kornfeld

When we stay committed to helping each other and our belief systems are aligned, then we will solve the mechanisms and reunite why we do what we do with what we do to achieve our goals.

Jeffrey Young

Prognosis Unclear

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 10.10.2012 | Politics

The reception area at Johns Hopkins Hospital's decorated adult emergency department was only about half full, the state-of-the-art trauma rooms...

Undocumented Immigrants Concerned They'll Be Exposed By Health Care Law

Reuters | Posted 10.09.2012 | Business

By Salimah Ebrahim WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - As she was ushered into surgery eight years ago, Paula was confident that doctors at ...

GOP Lawmaker Hints Opposition To Popular Law

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 07.31.2012 | Politics

A Republican candidate for Arizona's open Senate seat hinted that he opposes the pre-existing condition portion of the Affordable Care Act during a fo...

Jeffrey Young

Health Law Costs, Benefits Can Add Up To A Win

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 07.16.2012 | Business

If there are winners under the Affordable Care Act, Martha Olson and Red Coine should probably both be counted on that list. Yet only one of them will...

GOP Votes To Repeal Obamacare Again

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 09.10.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Pressing an election-year point, Republicans pushed yet another bill through the House on Wednesday to repeal the nation's two-year...

Obama Awaits Supreme Court Health Care Verdict Like Everyone Else

Reuters | Posted 08.27.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will learn how the Supreme Court rules on his flagship healthcare law from watching the ...

Health Care Battle Likely Won't End With Repeal

Posted 06.26.2012 | Business

The health care battles could just be getting started. If health care reform is repealed this week, health care companies may file lawsuits in an a...

Health Care Reform Has Saved Seniors Billions

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 06.26.2012 | Home

If the Supreme Court overturns President Obama's health care reform law on Thursday, seniors will likely have to spend billions more on prescription d...

Health Care Co-Ops: In the Heartland, Bread and Butter Trumps Ideology

Sanford D. Horwitt | Posted 08.25.2012 | Politics
Sanford D. Horwitt

When it comes to the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, apparently there is no end to partisan political sniping in Washington even when the casualties include one's own voters beyond the Beltway. Last month, five senior Senate and House Republicans fired a broadside at a heretofore relatively noncontroversial provision of the Affordable Care Act, one that provides federal start-up loans to qualified organizations across the country to establish health insurance cooperatives. The co-ops could be an appealing nonprofit alternative for individuals and small businesses, many owned, it is reasonable to say, by Republican-leaning entrepreneurs. These small-business job creators, lacking the bargaining power of big companies, have been saddled with double-digit health- insurance rate increases in recent years by for-profit insurance companies.

Metaphor and Health Care: On The Power to Make Metaphor Into Law

George Lakoff | Posted 08.25.2012 | Politics
George Lakoff

Metaphor is central to law, as Citizens United showed by making the metaphor Corporations Are Persons into a law. This week's likely judgment was prefigured in the 2008 Republican presidential race when Rudolph Giuliani likened health care to a flat screen TV.

Jeffrey Young

The Health Care System Is Failing The Sick And The Supreme Court Could Make It Worse

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 06.22.2012 | Business

Sarah Lewis is fed up with American health care: "I've completely removed myself from the system," she said. "I don't want to be a patient anymore." ...

The Biggest Misconception About Health Care Overhaul

AP | TOM MURPHY | Posted 06.20.2012 | Home

-- One of the biggest misconceptions about President Obama's health care overhaul isn't who the law will cover, but rather who it won't. If it survi...

Obama's Landmark Efforts Largely Invisible On The Trail

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 08.12.2012 | Politics

PHILADELPHIA — Fighting for re-election, President Barack Obama is playing down his historic health care overhaul and the multibillion-dollar re...

Republicans Launch New Attack On Health Care Reform

Reuters | Posted 08.08.2012 | Politics

* Republican probe cites two groups used in ad campaign * Democrats say probe wastes time, finds nothing new WASHINGTON,...

New Details Of Obama Health Care Deal Revealed

The New York Times | Posted 06.08.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- After weeks of quiet talks, drug industry lobbyists were growing nervous....

Obama Says Supreme Court Ruling Could Mean Back To The Drawing Board On Health Care

Posted 05.31.2012 | Politics

If the Supreme Court rules against President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law in a decision expected at the end of the month, it could ...

Chris Christie Throws Cold Water On Health Care Plan

AP | Posted 05.11.2012 | Politics

TRENTON, N.J. -- Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday vetoed legislation that would set up a state health insurance exchange as part of President Barack Ob...