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State Health Care Reform

Obama's Greatest Legacy

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 02.12.2013 | Politics
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Stephen Schlesinger

Today, over a dozen Republican-controlled states are refusing to set up the health care exchanges that are called for by the bill and are eschewing expanded Medicaid coverage which the legislation also provides for.

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John Celock

Obamacare Foe's Aide Gears Up Run For Key Post

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 12.11.2012 | Politics
Read More: State Health Care Reform, Kansas Republicans, Stephen Six, Aaron Jack, Health Insurance, Sandy Praeger, Moderate Republicans, Video, State Health Care Exchanges, Obamacare, Health Care Exchanges, Insurance, Kansas Politics, Sam Brownback, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Mark Parkinson, Health Care, Politics News

Kansas' moderate Republican insurance commissioner, Sandy Praeger, who supported setting up a state-run health care exchange, is planning not to seek ...

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John Celock

States Delay Insurance Exchanges, Hoping Supreme Court Strikes Down Health Care Law

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.22.2012 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, State Health Care Reform, US Supreme Court, Video, Jeff Colyer, Health Care Exchanges, Health Care Law, Kansas Politics, State and Local Government, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Lieutenant-Governors, National Lieutenant Governors Association, Medicaid, Mark Parkinson, Jean Sullivan, Health Care, Governor Mark Parkinson, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The nation's lieutenant governors were advised to focus on the quality of health care delivery, along with potential insurance challenge...

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John Celock

Legislators Told To Avoid 'Yugo' Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.30.2011 | Politics
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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...

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Insurance Does Not Equal Health Care: Specious Arguments by 'Free-Market' Opponents of Colorado Single Payer Bill

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: HB 1273, State Health Care Reform, Savings With Single Payer Health Care Model, Insurance Claims Denial, Multipayer Private Insurances, Colorado Guaranteed Health Care Act, Insurance & Pharmaceutical Lobbies, Federal Health Care Reform, Media Blackout of Single Payer Health Care, Comprehensive Health Care Reform, Massachusetts-Style Health Care Reform, Obama-Biden Health Care Plan, Business News
Michele Swenson

Seemingly counterintuitive, the more that have barrier-free access to necessary health care, the less cost and the better access for all.

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