Many Americans Incorrectly Believe Health Law Has Been Repealed
Nearly a year after passage of the health care overhaul law, barely half of Americans know the law remains intact, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows.
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Opinion Column
After The Deluge: Health Reform Without An Individual Mandate
As challenges to the health law's individual mandate wind their way through the courts, it is important to focus on the real question: what happens to the health law if this provision is ultimately struck down?
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Opinion Column
Medical Liability Reform Should Be Real And Effective
As Congress wrestles with medical liability reform, more than 40 years of experience with California's cap on non-economic damages offers evidence that this approach is an effective way to achieve the goal of reducing health care costs while preserving sufficient deterrence in the legal system.
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Judges Reviewing Health Law Say Penalty Is Not A Tax
Congress took great pains to ensure that the penalty imposed on people who don't get health insurance was not called a tax in the health law. This could make it tough for the Justice Department to argue that it is a tax.
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State Worker Backlash Spreads Across The Country
The public employee backlash against Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plan to help balance the state's budget by imposing higher health care and pension co-pays is spreading across the nation, as newly-elected conservative governors seek to roll back benefits granted during better economic times.
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GOP Counts The Ways To Defund Health Law
House Republicans have come up with more than half a dozen ways to throttle spending on overhaul. Democrats in the Senate can block them, and President Obama still wields the veto pen.
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Republicans Take Steps To Defund Health Law Implementation, Planned Parenthood – Health On The Hill Transcript
House Republicans passed measures to defund implementation of the health law, while the Obama administration fires back, rescinding a regulation they say could jeopardize patient access to care.
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Health On The Hill: Republicans Take Steps To Defund Health Law Implementation, Planned Parenthood
As part of legislation to keep the government funded through March 4, House Republicans passed a series of amendments aimed at defunding implementation of the health care law. Separately, the Obama administration rescinded part of a 2008 conscience clause regulation they said could impact patients' access to medical care.
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New Contraception Rules Spark ‘Conscience Clause’ Debate
Religious exemptions that allow health care workers to decline certain services to patients if they have a religious exemption should not include contraception. That's the bottom line of the administration's new regulations on the "conscience clause."
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Opinion Column
All Governors Should Just Say No To ObamaCare
Those who believe the health law is unconstitutional have a solemn obligation not to implement it.
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Health Law Forces Changes To Reduce Hospitals Readmissions
20 percent of Medicare patients are back in the hospital within 30 days, a trend that endangers patients and raises health costs.
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Health On The Hill Transcript: President Obama’s Health Budget Scrutinized
Jackie Judd of the Kaiser Family Foundation is joined by Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News and David Nather of Politico to talk about the president's 2012 proposed budget and a House bill that would repeal a provision of the health care overhaul that small businesses find particularly onerous.
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Opinion Column
A Slippery Slope To Defunding The Health Law
As the House considers its repeal of the health law's unpopular 1099 reporting provision, the measure's premium tax credits are being eyed as a possible pay-for.
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Experts Seek To Simplify Medication Labels That Often Confuse Patients
Many people do not take drugs as directed-skipping doses, taking the wrong number of pills or taking them at the wrong time of day. Poor adherence results in millions of dollars of medical expenses each year.
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Opinion Column
An Irresponsible Roll Of The Dice
The president chose to submit a profoundly unserious budget. There's no entitlement reform to close the long-term fiscal gap. There's no tax reform. There are some minor cuts to marginal programs for show. But, overall, it's very much a business-as-usual budget, with a few new and expensive long-term commitments thrown in for good measure. It's like the president and his team woke up after the mid-term election with a bad case of political amnesia.
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Obama’s Medicare ‘Doc Fix’ Under Fire
In his 2012 budget, the president proposed a two-year, $54 billion solution to stop the scheduled cuts to doctors who treat Medicare patients. The plan draws on savings from a variety of sources, including states, drug makers
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How Group Health Is Holding Costs Down: A KHN Interview With CEO Scott Armstrong
One of the lesser-known provisions of the new health law calls for federal loans to help fund health cooperatives. Scott Armstrong, the CEO of Group Health, says that co-ops can improve patient care and contain costs.
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Opinion Column
Political Gridlock And The Challenge Of Implementing Health Reform
In regard to the health law's CLASS program, too little political space exists to advance midcourse corrections or enact programmatic improvements -- that's a price Democrats paid by achieving their dream of near-universal coverage on a party-line vote; and by Republicans, because of their implacable opposition to just about everything Democrats proposed.
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Administration Seeks To Calm Republican Governors’ Fears On Implementing Health Law
An Obama administration memo details flexibility to determine which insurers can participate in health insurance exchanges, tailor Medicaid programs and even offer health savings accounts.
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Text: House Democrats Call for Justice Thomas’s Recusal on Health Law Constitutionality
In a letter to Justice Thomas, 74 House Democratic members write that "the only correct path" is for the judge to recuse himself from deliberations on cases involving the new health care law.