Insurance Mandate May Be Health Bill’s Undoing
November 16, 2011 by Healthcare-NOW!
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From the New York Times – As Barack Obama battled Hillary Rodham Clinton over health care during the Democratic presidential primaries of 2008, he was adamant about one thing: Americans, he insisted,...
A Tweak To Health Law Would Eliminate Medicaid For Some
October 27, 2011 by Healthcare-NOW!
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By Julie Rovner for NPR – Should the middle class be eligible for Medicaid? The health program, funded jointly by the feds and the states, was devised to cover the poor. But if a provision in last...
Health Law to Be Revised by Ending a Program
October 17, 2011 by Healthcare-NOW!
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By Robert Pear for the New York Times – The Obama administration announced Friday that it was scrapping a long-term care insurance program created by the new health care law because it was too costly...
Single-payer healthcare: better care, lower cost
October 4, 2011 by Healthcare-NOW!
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By Josh Starcher – Healthcare has already been proclaimed the central issue of the 2012 Presidential election, just like it was hailed the central issue of Obama’s presidency. It was also a central...
Administration Asks Supreme Court to Rule Quickly on Health Law
September 29, 2011 by Healthcare-NOW!
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By Adam Liptak for the New York Times – The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to hear a case concerning the 2010 health care overhaul law. The development came unexpectedly...
The Devilish Detail of Obama’s Speech
September 21, 2011 by Healthcare-NOW!
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By John Nichols for NPR – President Obama has erected what is likely to be the left flank in the debates of the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction—the so-called “super-committee”...
Get Active Now to End Bad Debt Deal
July 26, 2011 by Healthcare-NOW!
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The social insurance programs that have delivered increased health and financial security to those who need it most are being dealt away in a show of political theater over debt ceilings and corporate...
Obama pushing for cuts to Social Security, Medicare
July 7, 2011 by Healthcare-NOW!
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By Glenn Greenwald for Salon – This is at once an extraordinary and completely unsurprising headline: For months, the standard narrative among progressive commentators was that Republicans were...
Health care cuts proposed in deficit negotiations
July 5, 2011 by Healthcare-NOW!
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Congress reconvenes this week to consider options in budget talks From the New York Times – Obama administration officials are offering to cut tens of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid...
FDL and PNHP Join Forces to Petition Obama Administration
May 26, 2011 by Healthcare-NOW!
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Give Vermont the Waivers it Needs to Build a Better Health Care System If McDonald’s receives health care waivers from HHS, Vermont should too Petition: http://action.firedoglake.com/VThealthcare Physicians...




