House Takeover Will Give GOP Ways To Attack Health Law
With their House majority, Republicans plan to use all available legislative tools to challenge and change the health reform law.
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Text: The Republican ‘Pledge’ On Health Care
In late September, led by Minority Leader John Boehner, some House Republicans released "A Pledge to America" -- an outline of their plan should they gain control of Congress. Here is the excerpt that deals with health care.
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Insurance Commissioners Loom Large In Health Law
Voters don't give much thought to who runs their state department of insurance. And in many places no one can name the person holding this office. But as key provisions of the new federal health law begin to take effect, insurance commissioners will become paramount.
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3 States To Vote On Health Insurance Mandate
Voters in Arizona, Colorado and Oklahoma will decide whether to accept constitutional amendments prohibiting the federal health law's keystone individual mandate - the provision to require everyone have health insurance beginning in 2014.
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Health On The Hill Transcript: The Campaigns And Health Reform
With the elections less than one week away, ads making claims about the health law are flooding the airwaves. Many Democrats continue to not mention health reform, while Republicans criticize the law as too large, too expensive and intrusive into Americans' lives.
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Physician-Owned Hospitals Racing To Meet Health Law Deadline
Nationwide, new physician-owned hospitals are scrambling to open by the end of the year. Beginning Jan. 1, the health law bans them from taking part in Medicare, making it hard for the facilities to survive.
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Opinion Column
What If The President Had Changed His Priorities? A Pre-Election Analysis From An Alternate Universe
Many politicos say the current political landscape would be very different if President Obama would have shifted his legislative priorities to put the economy in front of health reform. But would it really?
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Health On The Hill – October 27, 2010
With the elections less than one week away, ads making claims about the health law are flooding the airwaves. Many Democrats, concerned that voters view the measure in a negative light, continue to not mention health reform. Republicans, predicted to take control of the House and increase their ranks in the Senate, continue to criticize the law as too large, too expensive and intrusive into Americans' lives. But President Barack Obama and some Democrats are promoting the law's immediate consumer benefits and say it will improve the quality of health care for all Americans.
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Dems And GOP Galaxies Apart On Health Law
Three top pollsters - two Democrats and a Republican - have very different takes on what impact the health law will have on the election.
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Debate Over Health Reform Soon To Change Gears, Expert Predicts
Former Kennedy staffer says GOP will back off talk of repeal after the election.
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High Risk Pools For People With Medical Issues Start Slowly
Response has been modest and reviews are mixed for insurance plans set up by the federal health law for people with medical problems.
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Some Hill Races Could Hinge On Seniors’ Anger Over Medicare
As emotions run high over the new health law, older voters' concerns about Medicare cuts could be a deciding factor in some particularly close congressional races.
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Florida Congressional Race Hinges On Seniors’ Confusion, Anger
As emotions run high over the new health law, older voters' concerns about Medicare cuts could be a deciding factor in Florida's 2nd Congressional District. Reporter Marilyn Werber Serafini travelled to north Florida to talk with seniors and discovered some angry voters, including one woman who changed political parties because she doesn't like the Democrats' health law.
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Opinion Column
What if Republicans Win?
If certain steps are taken, the next round of reform could make health insurance portable, affordable and fair.
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Video: Checking In With Tom Daschle
Jackie Judd checks in with Tom Daschle, former Senate Majority Leader and a senior, informal, advisor to President Obama during the health debate. He talks about the challenges facing the administration now, including walking the line between the "pragmatic and idealistic" and about how to respond to the many requests for waivers from complying with the law. Daschle has a new book about the new debate: "Getting It Done."
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State Regulators Recommend New Health Insurance Rules
State insurance regulators have defined one of the thorniest provisions of the new health overhaul law: the requirement that insurers spend at least 80 percent of revenue on direct medical care.
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Health Law’s Opponents Dominating Airwaves
President Obama signed the health law in March and told voters to read up on it. But opponents of the law have done most of the educating on what it means, sometimes in ads with false claims.
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Campaign Claims: Health Law Myths And Facts
The debate that preceded passage of the health-care overhaul resumed as a heated issue in the midterm elections. Politicians and advocacy groups seeking repeal of the law are making dramatic claims about the its cost and effects. How valid are they? We evaluate some of the most common criticisms.
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Health On The Hill – October 18, 2010
Some Democrats are talking about health care in their elections in a new way: send us to Washington to fix parts of the health care bill that you don't like. Meanwhile, oral arguments in a Virginia court case challenging the law's requirement that individuals purchase health care insurance are proceeding in court.
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Opinion Column
What’s the Worst That Could Happen With The New Health Law?
The Heritage Foundation's analysis of the impact of health reform shows that different assumptions could put a tremendous amount of pressure on an already soaring national debt.
By Rea Hederman and Paul Winfree