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(AP)—An arts and craft supply company says part of the new federal health care law should be blocked because it requires coverage for morning-after and week-after birth control pills. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-hobby-lobby-block-health-law.html Health Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:28:31 EST news270977302 When hospital patients have to be readmitted soon after discharge, hospitals look bad. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-hospital-readmission.html Health Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:44:55 EST news269102690 (AP)—A federal strike force has charged 91 people, including doctors and nurses, in seven cities with Medicare fraud schemes involving $429 million in false billings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-feds-people-429m-medicare-fraud.html Health Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:34:38 EST news268580057 (AP)—Americans may not be all that crazy about President Barack Obama's health care law, but a new poll shows they don't see it going away. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-poll-health-law.html Health Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:51:00 EST news267850113 (AP)—Congressional budget analysts are now estimating that nearly 6 million Americans—most of them in the middle class—will have to pay a tax penalty for not getting health insurance once President Barack Obama's health care law is fully in place. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-tax-penalty-6m-uninsured-people.html Health Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:59:56 EST news267332390 Sandra Pico is poor, but not poor enough. She makes about $15,000 a year, supporting her daughter and unemployed husband. She thought she'd get health insurance after the Supreme Court this year upheld President Barack Obama's health care law. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-states-poor-health.html Health Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:33:11 EST news264162727 US lawmakers voted Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, a contentious election-year move by Republicans aimed at striking down one of Obama's key achievements. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-house-votes-repeal-health-law.html Health Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:47:02 EST news261244015 US lawmakers will vote Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, as Republicans unleash a barrage of attacks aimed at inspiring support for wiping out the landmark reforms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-obama-health-law-republican-led-repeal.html Health Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:28:08 EST news261196079 Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney has appeared to contradict previous campaign statements by saying President Barack Obama's health reform law entails a "tax" and not a penalty. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-romney-threads-position-health-law.html Health Thu, 05 Jul 2012 03:57:30 EST news260679444 On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the national health care law, medical researchers from around the globe gathered at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT for the annual New England Tuberculosis Symposium. The focus of the all-day event was a disturbing global health trend: the emergence of a form of incurable tuberculosis that is drug-resistant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-drug-resistant-tb.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:20:01 EST news260448326 With Chief Justice John Roberts' decisive swing vote to uphold "Obamacare," the conservative-majority US Supreme Court has seen its reputation as an independent final arbiter restored, experts say. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-obamacare-faith-supreme-court.html Health Sun, 01 Jul 2012 06:22:56 EST news260342566 (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, handing him a huge election-year political victory and keeping in force the legislative centerpiece of his term, a law aimed at covering more than 30 million uninsured Americans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-high-court-health-thursday.html Health Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:52:22 EST news259991533 As the United States Supreme Court prepares to rule on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care law, a new National Agenda Opinion Poll by the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication reveals Americans are divided along party and ideology lines on a key provision of the law. Democrats and liberals overwhelmingly favor insurance mandates, whereas large majorities of Republicans and conservatives oppose them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-mandate-divisions-national-survey-deeply.html Health Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:35:48 EST news259918529 The US House of Representatives ignored a White House veto threat and voted Thursday to repeal a tax on medical devices, an element of President Barack Obama's health care law which Republicans say kills jobs and hinders innovation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-house-votes-repeal-tax-medical.html Health Fri, 08 Jun 2012 05:20:05 EST news258348925 (AP) -- Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she'd be dead if it weren't for President Barack Obama's health care law. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fate-frail-patients-hinges-supreme.html Health Thu, 17 May 2012 12:22:45 EST news256476158 (AP) -- Couples retiring this year can expect their medical bills throughout retirement to cost 4 percent more than those who retired a year ago, according to an annual projection released Wednesday by Fidelity Investments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-couples-health.html Health Wed, 09 May 2012 11:50:01 EST news255782370 (AP) -- More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-rebates-health-law-1b.html Health Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:31:27 EST news254680279 (AP) -- For many HIV-positive Americans, and those who advocate on their behalf, these are days of anxious waiting as the Supreme Court ponders President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-health-debate-high-stakes-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:18:55 EST news254593127 (AP) -- A possible misunderstanding about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could cloud Supreme Court deliberations on its fate, leaving the impression that the law's insurance requirement is more onerous than it actually is. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-supreme-court-health-overhaul.html Health Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:18:39 EST news253358298 US President Barack Obama on Monday challenged the "unelected" Supreme Court not to take the "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" step of overturning his landmark health reform law. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-obama-supreme-court-health-law.html Health Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:04:55 EST news252605089 (AP) -- The survival of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul rests with a Supreme Court seemingly split over ideology and, more particularly, in the hands of two Republican-appointed justices. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-court-health-case-doors.html Health Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:20:28 EST news252213622 (AP) -- The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it could throw out other key parts of President Barack Obama's health care law if it first finds the individual insurance requirement unconstitutional. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-health-arguments-portion-survive.html Health Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:32:15 EST news252171121 The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether President Barack Obama's landmark health care law should be struck down if its key requirement that all Americans buy insurance is declared unconstitutional. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-day-supreme-court-health-law.html Health Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:57:07 EST news252154620 The Supreme Court dives into the heart of President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law Tuesday, taking up its most divisive requirement -- that Americans maintain insurance or be fined. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-supreme-court-heart-obama-health.html Health Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:28:02 EST news252041266 Neal Katyal, who as acting US Solicitor General defended the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's flagship health reform in lower courts, has warned in an interview with AFP of "grave" and "profound" consequences if the Supreme Court accepts a challenge to the law. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-obamacare-grave-profound.html Health Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:15:12 EST news251882102 US President Barack Obama's landmark health reform faces a make-or-break test in the Supreme Court next week in a historic case likely to shape the nation's future political landscape. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-obama-health-reform-supreme-court.html Health Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:30:01 EST news251695007 (AP) -- Here's a thought that can't comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-gop-appointed-justices-health-law-fate.html Health Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:17:18 EST news251295432 Seven US states have filed a lawsuit challenging a requirement in President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law that religious organizations provide insurance covering birth control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-states-obama-birth.html Other Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:40:10 EST news249280803 (AP) -- New registered nurses would have to earn bachelor's degrees within 10 years to keep working in New York under a bill lawmakers are considering as part of a national push to raise educational standards for nurses, even as the health care industry faces staffing shortages. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-ny-bill-require-bachelor-degrees.html Health Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:26:07 EST news244448750 Starting in 2012, the government will charge a new fee to your health insurance plan for research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best. But what will Americans do with the answers? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-fee-medical-effectiveness.html Health Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:42:12 EST news244266124