Thursday, April 05, 2012

Health Care News--4.5.12

 
Trump: President Obama's comments on Supreme Court's pending decision on ...
Fox News
Trump is blasting President Obama for insulting the Supreme Court and questioning the court's power to overturn his healthcare law. We spoke with Donald Trump earlier tonight. VAN SUSTEREN: Donald, nice to talk to you. VAN SUSTEREN: Donald, do you have ...
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Obama, judge rebuked for health care comments
USA TODAY
Both President Obama and a federal appeals court judge have been criticized for comments about the pending decision that will determine the fate of the landmark health care law. It began Monday, when Obama said he expects the court to uphold the health ...
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USA TODAY
Did Scalia Parrot Fox News During Health-Care Arguments?
Daily Beast
One might be forgiven for thinking so following last week's oral arguments on the health-care law before the nation's highest court. As has been pointed out elsewhere, some of Scalia's questions from the bench made use of the tone and even the diction ...
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Obamacare Can Live Even If the Mandate Dies
BusinessWeek
By Peter Coy on April 05, 2012 Judging from the skeptical questions posed by justices last month, there's a real chance that the Supreme Court will strike down the central provision of the Affordable Care Act: the mandate that individuals carry health ...
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Obama Risks Voter Backlash by Warning High Court on Health Law
BusinessWeek
By Greg Stohr and Seth Stern on April 05, 2012 President Barack Obama has shown a willingness to campaign against the US Supreme Court if the justices strike down his 2010 health-care law. It's a strategy that's as risky as it is rare.
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NHS patient care monitoring affected by abortion clinic inspections
The Guardian
The healthcare regulator was forced to divert resources away from monitoring patient care in the NHS after Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, ordered unannounced inspections of more than 300 abortion clinics in England, it has emerged.
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The Guardian
White House seeks to head off showdown with judges over health-care comments
Christian Science Monitor
An appeals court judge has given the Obama administration until Thursday noon to clarify comments made by the president about health-care reform. The judge's question: Does Obama acknowledge that federal courts can strike down federal laws?
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President Obama Locks Horns With Chief Justice Roberts Over Health Care Case
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Looking to a Supreme Court decision in the health care case months away, President Barack Obama has locked horns with Chief Justice John Roberts over how historically significant a decision striking down the mandate would be.
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Judge slams Obama's health care comments
msnbc.com
During a hearing over a provision of the new health care law, a Reagan-appointed federal judge interrupted a DOJ attorney's opening statement to rant about President Obama. Last Word host Lawrence O'Donnell got reaction from Rebuild the Dream's Van ...
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Blogs
 
The Maddow Blog - The elusive GOP health care alternative
By Steve Benen
It was one of those details that was generally overlooked, but during the fight over health care reform in 2009 and 2010, congressional Republicans promised, over and over again, to come up with a GOP alternative to "Obamacare.
Newsvine - The Maddow Blog - Articles
Daily Kos: Republicans admit they have no health care replacement ...
By rss@dailykos.com (Joan McCarter)
Republicans are dusting off proposals that date back more than a decade: allowing individuals to buy health insurance across state lines, helping small businesses band together to buy insurance, offering generous tax deductions for the ...
Daily Kos
Tweeting Health Care | The Scoop - Investigative Reporting
By Matthew Kauffman
From the Tweet counters at Twitter comes this graph showing growing interest in the health care debate (or at least a growing number of Tweets about it), from President Obama's inauguration through last week's Supreme Court arguments on ...
The Scoop - Investigative Reporting
Eric Holder Defends Obama Comments On Supreme Court Health ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
CHICAGO — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department will respond "appropriately" to a federal appellate judge in Texas who demanded a letter recognizing federal courts' authority to strike down laws ...
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Prison Planet.com » 83-Year-Old Woman Denied Health Care Over ...
By admin
If you want to get a glimpse of what life will be like under Obamacare, just look to the UK, where government-run health care continues to produce ludicrous stories like this – a pensioner who had visited the same doctor's practice for 30 years ...
Prison Planet.com

Web
 
Health care law expands support for children and families
To improve the health and development of children, 10 states received grants to provide early childhood supports and home visits to families who volunteer to ...
www.hhs.gov/news/press/2012pres/04/20120403b.html

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