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Editorial: America is owed an honest Obamacare cost estimate

Would Obamacare force millions of middle-class Americans to buy health insurance they can’t afford, or would Obamacare end up costing taxpayers $500 billion more over 10 years? That was the question facing President Obama before the Treasury Department issued new … Continue reading

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Editorial: Breast cancer drug offers glimpse of death panels

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration could doom thousands of breast cancer victims. The FDA will be considering the unprecedented step of revoking approval for Avastin, a drug that represents the last hope for women with late-stage breast cancer. … Continue reading

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Judge lets states' healthcare suit go forward (4)

(Reuters) – U.S. states can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to overturn President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare reform law, a Florida judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson had said at a hearing last month that he would block … Continue reading

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Perhaps Democrats regret using strong-arm tactics (2)

Perhaps the Democrats are starting to realize that pushing health care through on a procedural loophole against the vigorously expressed will of the people wasn’t such a great idea after all. Long before health care was passed, or began to … Continue reading

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McDonald's May Drop Health Plan

McDonald’s Corp. has warned federal regulators that it could drop its health insurance plan for nearly 30,000 hourly restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement of the U.S. health overhaul. The move is one of the clearest indications that … Continue reading

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Child-Only Left Behind (1)

‘For the people who are reliant on it, it’s the whole world.” So says Health Care for America Now (HCAN) communications director Avram Goldstein of the specialty child-only health-insurance market. On September 23, most of that market disappeared, when several … Continue reading

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The Anatomy of a Hostile Government Takeover

During the long national debate over the future of American health care, President Obama frequently chastised his opponents for launching exaggerated attacks on his plan for “reform.” He took particular exception to the criticism that the changes he was pushing … Continue reading

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Palin: Lies, Damned Lies – Obamacare 6 Months Later (5-bumped)

It’s now six months since President Obama took control of one-sixth of the private sector economy with his health care “reform,” and the first changes to our health care system come into effect today. Despite overwhelming public dislike of the … Continue reading

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Insurers Stop Selling Child-Only Policies (3)

Six months after President Barack Obama’s signature health care bill passed, major insurance companies are dropping child-only policies just days before the new law requires them to cover sick children, enraging health care advocates who accuse the insurers of abandoning … Continue reading

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