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Obama Health Care Reform

Report Reveals New Estimates For Obama's Health Care Plan

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.15.2012 | Politics

In a report released Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office revealed new estimates on the cost of President Obama's health care reform law. The C...

Obama Administration Releases Ambitious Health Care Law Blueprint

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.12.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Fifty million people in America lack health insurance and the law says most of them must soon be provided coverage. But how to del...

Supreme Court Review of Health Reform: Will History Repeat Itself?

Douglas L. McSwain | Posted 05.02.2012 | Politics
Douglas L. McSwain

As Chief Justice Roberts famously testified in his confirmation hearing, the Supreme Court's function is to call "balls and strikes." So, some might ask, which is Obamacare: a strike or ball? Is the individual mandate constitutional or not?

John Celock

'Conservatives On Steroids' Block Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.16.2012 | Politics

The growing ideological rift in the Kansas Republican Party has engulfed the implementation of the federal health care reform law, leaving the future ...

Obama Moves On Most Popular Provision Of Health Care Law

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 04.10.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Don't have the slightest clue what your health insurance covers? The Obama administration says that's going to change. Officials a...

House Votes To Repeal Part Of Obama's Health Care Law

AP | By JIM ABRAMS | Posted 02.01.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Republican-led House on Wednesday voted to repeal a financially troubled part of the 2010 health care law that was designed to provi...

Romney Gives Awkward Response When Pressed On Key Issue

Posted 01.09.2012 | Politics

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney got caught up in an uncomfortable confrontation Monday, when a woman pressed him on his position on health care...

Mike Sacks

Obama Administration Files Health Care Law Defense With Supreme Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.07.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Friday afternoon submitted its opening brief to the Supreme Court defending the constitutionality of the law...

John Celock

Legislators Told To Avoid 'Yugo' Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.30.2011 | Politics

TAMPA -- The legislative sessions that will begin in a month's time will likely be dominated by debates over how to implement the kind of exchange sys...

Legal Forecast: The Supreme Court Won't Strike Health Reform - Part I

Douglas L. McSwain | Posted 01.30.2012 | Politics
Douglas L. McSwain

The legal forecast for the Affordable Care Act -- "Obamacare" -- is partly sunny. While the Supreme Court recently accepted the Act for review, it's not expected to hurl lightning bolts striking down any part of the Act. (Of course, this is only a prediction.)

States' Health Care Hypocrisy Revealed

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 01.29.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Federal officials announced Tuesday they are awarding more money to help states carry out President Barack Obama's health care over...

Supreme Court Justices Asked To Sit Out Health Care Case

AP | By MARK SHERMAN | Posted 11.26.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congr...

New Administration Program Offers Big Cash Rewards For Ideas

AP | Posted 01.14.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is tapping the health care overhaul law to advance its economic agenda, a political priority for the White...

Mike Sacks

Supreme Court To Take Up Obama Health Care Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.14.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In an order released on Monday morning, the Supreme Court announced that it will hear more than five hours of oral argument in the chall...

Court Ruling Upholds Health Care Reform

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 01.08.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — A conservative-leaning appeals court panel on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care law, as ...

John Celock

Governors Provide Recommendations On Health Care Exchanges

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.03.2012 | Politics

The nation's governors sent the Obama Administration recommendations Thursday morning regarding the implementation of health care exchanges as a feder...

Who Invented The Word 'Obamacare'?

Posted 12.28.2011 | Politics

It is used in rallying cries by Republicans nationwide, but who is responsible for crafting the now omnipresent term "Obamacare?" The Atlantic has ...

Key Industry Throwing Its Money Behind Obama

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.27.2011 | Politics

President Barack Obama has raised more money from the health care industry than Republican candidates, according to an analysis conducted by the Cente...

Thanks, Obamacare! Yeah, We're Going There

Jen Caltrider | Posted 12.26.2011 | Denver
Jen Caltrider

Why all the push to thank Obamacare? Well, because the poor word has such a bad rap... one it really doesn't deserve.

Demise Of Obama Long-Term Plan Leaves Gap

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 12.24.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — It's the one major health expense for which nearly all Americans are uninsured. The dilemma of paying for long-term care is likely...

White House Waffles On Key Part Of Health Care Reform

AP | By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 12.17.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The White House appeared to waffle Monday on the fate of a financially troubled long-term care program in President Barack Obama's healt...

Why Obama's Health Care Setback Vindicates Health Care Reform

The New Republic | Jonathan Cohn | Posted 12.17.2011 | Politics

For these reasons, conservatives like Peter Suderman who criticized CLASS as unsustainable were right to raise alarms, while liberals like me were wro...

Obama Pulls Plug On Part Of Health Care Reform Law

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 12.14.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Friday pulled the plug on a major program in the president's signature health overhaul law – a long-...

John Celock

Ohioans To Vote On Collective Bargaining And Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 12.14.2011 | Politics

While Ohio’s upcoming referendum on the state’s controversial collective bargaining law has become the marquee issue on November’s statewide bal...

Republicans' Plan To Create Jobs Is To Repeal Obama Measures

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 12.13.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama talked about jobs legislation in a 10-minute phone call Thursday, the Ohio Re...