WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says the number of young adults going without medical coverage has shrunk by 2.5 million since the new health care law took effect. A new analysis to be released Wednesday finds the drop is two-and-a-half times the figure indicated by government and private estimates from earlier this year. The health [...]
More than one-fifth of employed Americans lack health insurance, according to a recent survey, and that number is may be poised to grow as more workers take part-time or temporary jobs that don’t offer employer-provide health care. Twenty-two percent of American workers lack health insurance, a Department of Labor-funded study from the Iowa Policy Project found. [...]
WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department submitted a petition to the Supreme Court yesterdayurging it to declare once and for all that the 2010 health care overhaul is constitutional, the department made a point of mentioning the only Republican-appointed judge who has so far upheld the individual mandate. Indeed, the Obama administration made that point repeatedly. [...]
WASHINGTON — Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) looked slightly out of place at a black tie dinner last December, as he accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Charity Awards. Dressed in a bolo tuxedo and accompanied by his wife, Carol, the presidential hopeful barely mentioned charity in his speech to the group, choosing to [...]
WASHINGTON — At least one part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul has proven popular. With the economy sputtering, the number of young adults covered by health insurance grew by about a million as families flocked to take advantage of a new benefit in the law. Two surveys released Wednesday – one by the [...]
WASHINGTON — President Obama wants to extract $320 billion in savings from the health care system in his push to trim the deficit, starting with cutting payments to Medicare and Medicaid providers and ending with making beneficiaries pay more. The biggest savings — $135 billion over 10 years — would come from letting Medicare pay [...]
WASHINGTON — When CNN’s Wolf Blitzer pressed Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) over what he would do if a 30-year-old uninsured man suddenly slipped into a coma and needed care, he did so, in all likelihood, not knowing just how personal a question it was for the Texas Republican. Paul’s 2008 campaign manager, Kent Snyder, went through [...]
The jubilant shouts of members of the GOP audienceencouraging the death of a hypothetical uninsured man bring to mind the 2009 House floor speech delivered by former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, in which he famously charged: “The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.” Members of the crowd at the Tampa debate agree [...]
RICHMOND, Va. — The federal health care overhaul survived two lawsuits dismissed Thursday on technicalities, leaving President Barack Obama’s signature initiative headed toward a final resolution in the U.S. Supreme Court as early as next year. It’s possible the high court could rule on the issue by June 2012, in the midst of Obama’s re-election [...]
WASHINGTON — Though as many as 25 million uninsured Americans have pre-existing medical conditions like heart disease and diabetes, a year-old program to insure them has only 21,000 enrollees, according to an audit released Friday by congressional investigators. The Government Accountability Office reported that the government has so far spent just 2 percent of the $5 [...]
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