News tagged with health care law
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Feds charge 91 people in $429M Medicare fraud
(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.
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Oct 04, 2012 |
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Poll: Most see health law being implemented
(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.
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Sep 26, 2012 |
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Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people
(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 ...
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Sep 20, 2012 |
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In some US states, not poor enough for health care
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 ...
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Aug 14, 2012 |
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Budget office: Obama's health law reduces deficit
(AP) — President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will shrink rather than increase America's huge federal deficits over the next decade, Congress' nonpartisan budget scorekeepers said Tuesday, supporting ...
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Jul 25, 2012 |
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US House votes to repeal health law, likely to fail in Senate
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.
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Jul 11, 2012 |
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Obama health law faces Republican-led repeal vote
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.
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Jul 11, 2012 |
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Romney threads position on health law 'tax'
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.
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Jul 05, 2012 |
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Worry over drug-resistant TB
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 ...
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Jul 02, 2012 |
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Obamacare ruling restores faith in US Supreme Court
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.
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Jul 01, 2012 |
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US high court upholds heart of Obama health law
(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 ...
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Jun 27, 2012 |
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Mandate divisions: National survey shows public deeply divided on health insurance mandate
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 ...
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Jun 26, 2012 |
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US House votes to repeal tax on medical devices
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 ...
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Jun 08, 2012 |
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Fate of 'uninsurables' hinges on Supreme Court
(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 ...
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May 17, 2012 |
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Retired couples may need $240,000 for health care
(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.
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May 09, 2012 |
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