Thursday, March 29, 2012

Scott Walker Blames Health Care Reform For Slow Job Growth In Wisconsin

Source: The Washington Post
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) pledged to add 250,000 private sector jobs in the state by the end of his four-year term, and as Democrats try to recall him and throw him out of office, a central part of his message to voters has been that he has made progress in that area.
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Academic Built Case for Mandate in Health Care Law

Source: The New York Times
Mr. Gruber has spent decades modeling the intricacies of the health care ecosystem, which involves making predictions about how new laws will play out based on past experience and economic theory.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Health Care Reform in the Balance As Insurance Company and Hospital Chain Battle in Pittsburg

Source: The Huffington Post
A nasty fight between two health-care companies is brewing in Pittsburgh with one company CEO going so far as to accuse his rival of trying to "rape" the local hospital market.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Justices push back on states' Medicaid case

Source: Politico
The Supreme Court’s liberal justices hammered the health care reform law’s opponents with tough questions about their objections to the law’s Medicaid expansion Wednesday — and even Chief Justice John Roberts sounded skeptical of the states’ argument that the law makes unreasonable demands on their Medicaid programs.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

State to appeal judge's ruling on emergency contraceptives

Source: Seattle Times

State officials announced Wednesday they will appeal a federal judge's ruling that Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Romney health plan draws popular support

Source: Financial Times
Mitt Romney does not brag about it much these days, but almost six years since he signed healthcare reform into law as governor of Massachusetts, his plan to require residents to buy health insurance has largely been a success.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Without federal law, some pieces of health reform could continue in Connecticut

Source: Connecticut Mirror

Connecticut officials are working to create a new health insurance market that will open next year, hire a CEO to run it and prepare for an influx of new Medicaid recipients by 2014.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Mine Discontent on Health-Care Law

Source: Bloomberg

Pennsylvania (STOPA1) legislators are poised to become the latest to offer voters a chance to say yes or no to a key part of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, under challenges that have spread nationwide.

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Monday, March 19, 2012

Obama, Romney sweep health care laws under a rug

Source: The Seattle Times
If the law that Republican opponents call "Obamacare" survives, "Romneycare" will stand in the history books as a guidepost for it, hardly the first time a state has served as a laboratory for national social policy.
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Campaign to highlight options for uninsured

Source: The Baltimore Sun

State officials want to make sure others in Engels' shoes know about the Maryland Health Insurance Plan. They're launching their biggest marketing push ever today.

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