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Jeffrey Young

Why Crazy Hospital Bills Aren't Coming Down Anytime Soon

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business

The high and wildly varying prices for hospital services revealed by President Barack Obama's administration last week likely aren't going away any ti...

Obama Administration Reveals Big Help For Uninsured

AP | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration announced Thursday that community health centers around the country will get $150 million to help uninsured Ame...

Medicaid Refusals By State Republicans Threaten Health Care For 3 Million People

Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics
Jeffrey Young

Amid all the political posturing over the Medicaid expansion that's part of President Barack Obama's health care reform plan, it can be easy to lose s...

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Obama Acknowledges Challenges Of Carrying Out Obamacare

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics

President Barack Obama has a problem. Many Americans aren't sure whether his health care reform law is even on the books; those people most likely...

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GOP Infighting In Key States Imperils Health Care For The Poor

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics

Conservative Republican governors Jan Brewer of Arizona, Rick Scott of Florida and John Kasich of Ohio are battling with their own party members over ...

Did Obama's Budget Give States A Reason Not To Expand Medicaid?

Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.12.2013 | Business
Jeffrey Young

Did the White House just hand an excuse to anti-Obamacare state officials to punt on the law's Medicaid expansion? As states continue to wrestle with...

Sky-High Prescription Drug Costs Cause Poor People To Skip Needed Medicines

Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.09.2013 | Business
Jeffrey Young

Uninsured people and those with low incomes are the most likely to go without prescription drugs they need because of cost -- and it could be harming ...

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How Health Insurance Giants Can Avoid Obamacare Regulations For A Whole Year

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.03.2013 | Business

Health insurance companies are looking to put off complying with health care reform rules that guarantee basic benefits and consumer protections -- an...

Obamacare Turns To New Tactic

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 04.01.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- How do you convince millions of average Americans that one of the most complex and controversial programs devised by government may actu...

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Health Insurance Out Of Reach For Millions Of Americans

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 03.21.2013 | Business

More than 45 million U.S. residents didn't have health insurance during the first nine months of last year, according to survey findings released Thur...

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Obamacare's Uphill Battle: Public Still Uninformed, Divided As Big Reforms Approach

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 03.21.2013 | Business

Nearly three years after President Barack Obama enacted landmark health care reforms, the American public remains uninformed and divided about the law...

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Chris Christie Embraces Obamacare Plan For The Poor

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 02.27.2013 | Business

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie became the eighth Republican governor to back expanding Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care reform law ...

New Jersey GOP Gov. Chris Christie To Make Big Obamacare Announcement

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 02.26.2013 | Business

New Jersey governor Chris Christie is expected to propose this afternoon that his state expand its Medicaid program to more poor people under Presiden...

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Rick Scott's Long Journey From Obamcare Hater To Medicaid Expander, In His Own Words

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 02.25.2013 | Business

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has said a lot about President Barack Obama's health care reform agenda over the last four years. After making his nam...

Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

Time | Posted 04.25.2013 | Healthy Living

When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get h...

'She Couldn't Take Time Off, Because She Would Not Be Paid'

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.15.2013 | Politics

Life isn't easy at $7.25 an hour. Following President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, where he called for increasing the national ho...

Michigan's Republican Governor Backs Major Obamacare Initiative

Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.08.2013 | Business
Jeffrey Young

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will become the sixth Republican state chief executive to push for the expansion of Medicaid under President Barack Obama's ...

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Another GOP Governor Rejects Health Coverage For Poor People

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 02.05.2013 | Business

Pennsylvania won't make Medicaid available to more of its poor residents, Gov. Tom Corbett (R) told state legislators during his budget address Tuesda...

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Ohio's GOP Governor Supports Major Obamacare Expansion

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 02.05.2013 | Business

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), who opposed President Barack Obama's health care reform law, wants to take advantage of Obamacare funding to expand his sta...

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Part-Time Workers Go Uninsured Ahead Of Obamacare: Survey

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 02.04.2013 | Business

Just 8 percent of part-time workers are enrolled in their company health insurance plans, according to a report released Monday that underscores the r...

Immigration Reformers Eye Obamacare

Jeffrey Young | Posted 03.30.2013 | Business
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Could immigration reform expand the scope and cost of President Barack Obama's health care reform law? If advocates for immigrants have their way, it ...

Getting Young People to Work Against Their Own Best Interests: Here's How It's Done

Wendell Potter | Posted 03.30.2013 | Politics
Wendell Potter

America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's big PR and lobbying group, has rolled out a slick campaign aimed at getting Congress to gut some of ObamaCare's most important consumer protections.

Mississippi's GOP Governor Says No American Lacks Health Care

Jeffrey Young | Posted 03.25.2013 | Business
Jeffrey Young

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) doesn't like President Barack Obama's health care reform law. It's too expensive and too intrusive, he says. And Bry...

As Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Approaches, States Getting Ready

Jeffrey Young | Posted 01.23.2013 | Business
Jeffrey Young

Medicaid does a decent job offering health care coverage to children and pregnant women, an okay job covering poor parents and a bad job providing hea...

GOP Governor Who Backed Key Obamacare Provision Still Faces Democratic Complaints

Jeffrey Young | Posted 03.24.2013 | Business
Jeffrey Young

Being one of just four Republican governors to embrace a central pillar of President Barack Obama's health care reform law wasn't enough to insulate N...