by Staff Writer Published: April 24,2010
Tags: health care reform, Insurance
Small businesses will be able to pool together to buy insurance under the new federal health-care legislation passed earlier this month. By no later than 2014, states will have to set up small-business health options programs, or SHOP exchanges, where small businesses will be able to pool together to buy insurance at presumably lower premiums [...] [...]
by admin Published: April 8,2010
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett, a Democrat, has launched a bid to unseat Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, a Republican. [...]
by admin Published: April 7,2010
Tags: health care reform
Alone in a meeting room, trustees of the Alabama Dental Association complained about Sarrell Dental Center, a nonprofit corporation that treats thousands of needy children on Medicaid. In a rambling exchange, leaders of the 1,800-member professional organization said they were concerned about Sarrell’s quality of care, and they lamented that for-profit dentists face tough business [...] [...]
by admin Published: April 1,2010
Tags: health care reform
A liberal activist group plans to deliver petitions to Colorado Attorney General John Suthers opposing his decision to join a national lawsuit to block a federal law overhauling health care. ProgressNow Colorado says it will take petitions signed by more than 7,000 Coloradans to Suthers’ office Thursday. The online petition demands that Suthers “stop wasting [...] [...]
by Staff Writer Published: March 27,2010
Tags: health care reform
Love it or hate it, President Obama signed into law this week the most ambitious health care reform program this nation has ever seen. It was without a doubt an historical event, and it was without doubt a controversial event, one that capped one of the longest and fiercest bouts of partisan wrangling our nation [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: March 27,2010
Tags: health care reform, Memorial
Uncompensated care has been a drag on Memorial Health System’s bottom line for years, but that could change once the Obama administration’s health care reforms take effect and more people become insured. Assuming a best-case scenario, the two-hospital system’s performance could improve by as much as $33 million a year under the legislation passed by [...] [...]
by admin Published: March 23,2010
Tags: health care reform
Today President Barack Obama signed into law a landmark health care reform bill, presiding over the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s and capping a divisive, yearlong debate that could define the November congressional elections. The law will bring near-universal coverage to a wealthy country in which tens of millions of people are [...] [...]
by admin Published: March 23,2010
Tags: health care reform
Attorneys general from 13 states sued the federal government Tuesday, claiming the landmark health care overhaul is unconstitutional just seven minutes after President Barack Obama signed it into law. The lawsuit was filed in Pensacola after the Democratic president signed the bill the House passed Sunday night. “The Constitution nowhere authorizes the United States to [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: March 22,2010
Attorney General John Suthers will join nearly a dozen other states in challenging the health care reform act passed over the weekend.. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires people to purchase health insurance or face a penalty. The lawsuit will also challenge the constitutionality of the penalties included in the legislation. “The U.S. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 22,2010
WASHINGTON (AP) – Making a last-ditch effort to save his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama on Monday put forward a nearly $1 trillion, 10-year compromise that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium increases that infuriate consumers. Posted Monday morning on the White House Web site, the plan would [...] [...]
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