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‘Obamacare’ association likely to kill exchange bill (access required)

by Amy Gillentine Published: April 15,2011

Tags: exchanges, health care reform, Obamacare

Bipartisan legislation that would make health insurance less expensive for small businesses is in jeopardy because of its perceived association with national health care reform law, dubbed Obamacare. Senate Bill 200 would be the first step toward creating a clearing house of information, known as a health insurance exchange, for small business owners and individuals. The [...] [...]

Health care, business at odds about overhaul (access required)

by Amy Gillentine Published: March 4,2011

Tags: health care reform

The Colorado Trust issued a brief last month that claims President Obama’s health care overhaul measures will dramatically cut employee insurance costs for Colorado businesses and individuals. But many experts and business owners aren’t buying it. The biggest factor in the issue is whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be implemented, changed or overturned [...] [...]

Fla. judge strikes down Obama health care overhaul

by Associated Press Published: January 31,2011

Tags: Health Care, health care reform, Obama

A federal judge declared the Obama administration’s health care overhaul unconstitutional Monday, siding with 26 states that sued to block it, saying that people can’t be required to buy health insurance. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson agreed with the states that the new law violates people’s rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 [...] [...]

Reform helps spur more Medicaid fraud busts (access required)

by Amy Gillentine Published: January 28,2011

Tags: Add new tag, electronic records, health care reform, Medicaid, Medicare

There’s good and bad news for the health care reforms passed last year (and which Republicans hope to decimate this year). First the good: Thanks to the law, a record amount of money was recovered from fraudulent Medicare claims last year. The Department of Health and Human Services recovered a total of $4 billion last year. Now [...] [...]

Public split on cuts to Medicaid, health reform

by Amy Gillentine Published: January 27,2011

Tags: health care reform, Medicaid, Medicare

Americans don’t want Washington to cut Medicaid, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. While most Americans want to cut the trillion-dollar deficit by cutting spending, they don’t want to cut funding for Medicare, Social Security or Medicaid – the most expensive entitlement programs. The fact that about [...] [...]

Latest court ruling a blow for health care reform opponents

by Amy Gillentine Published: January 18,2011

Tags: health care reform, Supreme court

Opponents of health care reform are getting little solace from the Supreme Court. A ruling last week showed the court’s reluctance to rein in Congress’s power to pass regulations under the constitution’s commerce clause. That’s the key point in the pending court battles over reform – that Congress can’t constitutionally require people to have health insurance. The [...] [...]

Poll: Opposition to health care law eases

by Associated Press Published: January 17,2011

Tags: health care reform

As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the health care debate, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Barack Obama’s overhaul have subsided. Ahead of a vote on repeal in the GOP-led House this week, strong opposition to the law stands at 30 percent, close to the lowest level registered [...] [...]

House takes first step toward health care repeal

by admin Published: January 7,2011

Tags: health care reform, House Republicans

House Republicans cleared a hurdle Friday in their first attempt to scrap President Barack Obama’s landmark health care overhaul, yet it was little more than a symbolic swipe at the law. The real action is in states, where Republicans are using federal courts and governors’ offices to lead the assault against Obama’s signature domestic achievement, a [...] [...]

Individual mandate comes with greater good aspect (access required)

by Amy Gillentine Published: December 24,2010

Tags: health care reform

A federal judge dealt a blow to health care reform earlier this month, declaring the legislation’s individual mandate unconstitutional. Many who oppose reform believe the decision sounded a death knell for the law. But they’re wrong, and here’s why: Judge Henry Hudson left all the insurance reform measures in the bill intact: insurance companies can no [...] [...]

NFIB arguing against health reform in federal court

by Amy Gillentine Published: December 16,2010

Tags: health care reform, Law, National Federation of Independent Businesses

Testimony will be heard today in federal court in yet another lawsuit that challenges the consitutationality of the health care reform law. This time, the National Federation of Independent Businesses – the only business organization to file a suit – will argue that the federal government doesn’t have the authority to mandate that individuals purchase health [...] [...]

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