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Judge Sets Dec. 16 Hearing on Obamacare Suit

PENSACOLA, Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida judge said Tuesday he would hear arguments Dec. 16 on a lawsuit by 20 U.S. states seeking to block President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who … Continue reading

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Suit to Overturn Obamacare Hears First Arguments

All eyes will be focused on a Pensacola, Florida courtroom Tuesday as Justice Department lawyers will try to convince a federal district court judge to throw out a lawsuit by 20 states charging that President Obama’s healthcare reforms are unconstitutional. … Continue reading

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Centrally Planning a Market Failure

Earlier this year, Robert Book of the Heritage Foundation published an article that highlights a deeply troubling aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: the law gives the executive branch the power to wipe out the entire private … Continue reading

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Cash-Poor Local Governments Ditching Public Hospitals (2)

Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort. Officials in Lauderdale County, Ala., this spring opted … Continue reading

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3M seniors may have to switch drug plans

WASHINGTON — A plan by Medicare to try to make it simpler for consumers to pick drug coverage could force 3 million seniors to switch plans next year whether they like it or not, says an independent analysis. That risks … Continue reading

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Who's ObamaCare's Daddy? (1)

“I know this is a tough vote,” President Obama told House Democrats at a March pep rally merely hours before they passed national health care. But he added that he was “actually confident” that “it will end up being the … Continue reading

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An Ugly Preview of ObamaCare

WASHINGTON — If you want a preview of President Obama’s health care “reform,” take a look at Massachusetts. In 2006, it enacted a “reform” that became a model for Obama. What’s happened since isn’t encouraging. The state did the easy … Continue reading

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Insurers Push Plans Limiting Patient Choice (3)

As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country’s biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or hospitals. The plans, being tested … Continue reading

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Obesity Rating for Every American by 2014 (1)

(CNSNews.com) – New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records–that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year–must record not only the … Continue reading

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Doctors Threaten to Pull Out of Texas Medicaid

Cuts to the reimbursements given to doctors who treat patients covered by the state’s low-income health care program are raising fears that already declining physician participation will fall even further, according to a published report. The health care and insurance … Continue reading

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Daley: Copying the NHS the last thing the US should do (1)

This week, the Coalition will offer an example of how coping with an economic crisis may serve a reforming purpose. Having to cut back the power and the expenditure of the state will provide a rationale for dismantling the monolithic, … Continue reading

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