Sunday, April 08, 2012

Health Care News--4.8.12

 
A health care reform backup plan
Baltimore Sun
Initiated in October 2008, Healthy Howard provides comprehensive, affordable health care to working-class families and individuals who have incomes higher than the eligibility level for entitlement programs like Medicaid, but still too low to afford ...
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Healthcare: A mandate that overreaches
Los Angeles Times
By William Voegeli Healthcare is different. That, according to defenders of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — "Obamacare" — is the justification for the law's individual mandate. Healthcare is different, they say, because every ...
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Health care reform should start locally not nationally
Monroe News Star
To replace a monolith like Obamacare, which brings down the whole house when it fails, Mayo Research Institute strongly recommends 10 bare essentials of a more flexible and freedom-protecting reform that puts control of health care largely in the hands ...
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David Moon: A simpler solution for health care coverage
Knoxville News Sentinel
That's why the elaborate charade of trying to pay for universal health insurance via a personal or employer mandate was a waste of energy. A simpler solution would have been to do it just like we do the police or Central Intelligence Agency: have the ...
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E. Thomas McClanahan | Supreme Court should give Congress a do-over on health ...
Kansas City Star
By E.THOMAS McCLANAHAN Last week, President Barack Obama laid down a marker to the Supreme Court: Invalidate the health care law, and the court itself will become an issue in the election. He warned the justices against taking the "unprecedented, ...
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Kansas City Star
Health care poses pointed questions
Sun-Sentinel
The main target of the lawsuit, though certainly not the only one, is the "individual mandate" in ObamaCare that requires people to purchase health insurance. The federal government clearly has the power to compel people to serve in the military and on ...
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Obama taps conservative line in health care battle
San Antonio Express
By Dan Freedman WASHINGTON — It may be too little too late, but the Obama administration is leveraging conservative legal ideas to win support from Supreme Court justices — and the general public — for its signature health care law.
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PolitiFact NJ: Health care reform leaves NJ without federal funds for new ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
By Bill Wichert/The Star-Ledger The national health care reform requires expanding Medicaid eligibility starting in 2014, but more than a decade ago, New Jersey voluntarily extended coverage to certain low-income parents. Yet the state is not receiving ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Health insurers not waiting for court
Omaha World-Herald
The individual mandate, the core of the law, which requires most people to carry health insurance by 2014. » The rule requiring insurers to cover everyone who applies, regardless of costly pre-existing conditions, such as diabetes.
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Bohs column: We can't control health care change
Jackson Sun
Nowhere is technology more significant or advancing more rapidly than in health care. You might not want an iPad, smart phone or the latest Xbox. But you wouldn't think twice about accepting the latest high-tech medical scan, robotic surgery, ...
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Blogs
 
President Claims Court Ruling Against Health Care Law Would Be ...
By arizona today
President Claims Court Ruling Against Health Care Law Would Be Unprecedented. Apr 7. Posted by arizona today. By John Semmens: Semi-News — A Satirical Look at Recent News. In an effort to try to nudge the Supreme Court toward a ...
The Arizona Conservative
Proposed bills address NH health care - NashuaTelegraph.com
By onlineeditor@nashuatelegraph.com (The Nashua Telegraph)
CONCORD – The fate of the Affordable Care Act lies in the hands of the.
Nashuatelegraph.com: Local News,...
WA Senate passes modified K-12 health care bill - Wire - State ...
By The Associated Press ()
The Washington state Senate has passed a measure altering health insurance benefits for K-12 school employees.
The Bellingham Herald -- News Update

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