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Fight's Not Over Yet: More Challenges for ObamaCare

Law must still survive the election

(Newser) - The Affordable Care Act has survived the Supreme Court —without question a victory for President Obama—but that doesn't mean it's a breeze from here on out. Some of the challenges facing ObamaCare, from the Washington Post and the New York Times :
  • The election: Mitt Romney has
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D-Day for ObamaCare: What You Need to Know

If law is upheld, Romney wins, too, argues Politico

(Newser) - The most closely watched Supreme Court decision in years is due shortly after 10am today, and there are a lot of nervous people in Washington, DC, waiting to learn the fate of President Obama's health care reform—and lots of predictions. The best-case scenario for Obama would be that...

If ObamaCare Goes Down, GOP Plans to Do ... Nothing

Republican leaders want full repeal, popular provisions and all

(Newser) - If the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act, expect Republicans to do one thing: smile. Once, House leaders had planned to try to preserve the most popular parts of the law, like requiring insurance companies to cover people with preexisting conditions, letting young adults stay on their parents'...

Here's Who Pays for Health Care Reform

Universal coverage isn't free; CNN breaks down the costs

(Newser) - Assuming the Supreme Court doesn't strike it down, the Affordable Care Act will extend health care to millions of Americans—which isn't a cheap proposition. CNN breaks down who would wind up paying for the law, and how:
  • The wealthy: Starting next year there's a Medicare surtax
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ObamaCare Can Survive Without the Mandate
ObamaCare Can Survive Without the Mandate
OPINION
Jun 25, 2012 12:27 PM CDT

ObamaCare Can Survive Without the Mandate

But will Democrats stand by it, Steve Kornacki wonders

(Newser) - A ruling on ObamaCare is now expected Thursday , and the most widely anticipated outcome is that most of the law will be upheld but the individual mandate will be struck down. Though "conventional wisdom holds that the law is as good as dead" if that happens, writes Steve Kornacki...

As ObamaCare Decision Nears, Reform Money Flows

Billions have been spent already on law that could be overturned

(Newser) - The Supreme Court is expected to rule next week on whether President Obama's health care overhaul is constitutional, but no matter how that shakes out, Politico and the New York Times weigh in with reminders that will likely cheer supporters of the law and tick off opponents: Billions of...

Health Insurance Ads Go Cuddly

Firms shift marketing toward individual consumers

(Newser) - Health insurers are targeting a new audience: you. If the health care law's individual mandate remains intact, the companies could be looking at 120 million new potential customers by 2020, an analyst tells the New York Times . Regardless of the Supreme Court decision on the law, insurers believe the...

Top Insurer: Law or Not, We'll Keep ObamaCare

UnitedHealthcare to maintain preventive services, other Obama rules

(Newser) - Elements of President Obama's health care law will survive regardless of the Supreme Court's decision. The nation's biggest health insurer, UnitedHealthcare—which covers some 9 million people—plans to maintain several sections of the law's "Patient's Bill of Rights": It will continue to offer...

White House Made Deal With Big Pharma on Health Bill

Whether that's good or bad is open for debate

(Newser) - The White House cut a deal with the pharmaceutical industry to get health-care reform passed, a revelation getting renewed attention thanks to emails released by House Republicans, reports the New York Times . In one from 2009, Obama adviser Nancy-Ann DeParle tells a top industry lobbyist that the administration has agreed...

Two-Thirds Want to Dump ObamaCare


 Two-Thirds 
 Want to Dump 
 ObamaCare 
NEW POLL
Jun 7, 2012 11:10 AM CDT

Two-Thirds Want to Dump ObamaCare

Just 24% want justices to keep ObamaCare intact

(Newser) - With a Supreme Court ruling due by the end of June, two-thirds of Americans want at least a piece of ObamaCare overturned, a New York Times/CBS News poll finds. The results mark little change since before Supreme Court arguments in March. About 41% say the whole law should be dropped;...

Conservatives Pounce on Boehner's Health Plan

Outside groups a challenge for House leadership

(Newser) - John Boehner issued a statement yesterday insisting that he was dead-set on repealing the health care reform law "in its entirety," refuting a Politico report that he'd hatched a plan to keep the most popular parts of the law should the Supreme Court overturn ObamaCare. What prompted...

Ted Kennedy&#39;s Ghost: Please, Overturn ObamaCare
Ted Kennedy's Ghost:
Please, Overturn ObamaCare
OPINION
May 7, 2012 10:31 AM CDT

Ted Kennedy's Ghost: Please, Overturn ObamaCare

Jonathan Rauch has a conversation with the dead senator about judicial activism

(Newser) - Liberals should really hope the Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act, Ted Kennedy tells Jonathan Rauch for the New York Daily News. "I'm surprised," Rauch writes, "and not just because I'm talking to a dead senator." Wouldn't liberals hate to lose President...

Coming to 16M Mailboxes: ObamaCare Rebates

Health insurers to hand $1.3B back to consumers, employers this summer

(Newser) - Health insurers will be handing some $1.3 billion back to consumers and employers this summer as a key provision of ObamaCare comes into force. The health care law requires insurers to spend at least 80% of premiums on health care and quality improvements, or provide refunds. A study from...

Obama Blows $8B on Reelection Trick
 Obama Blows $8B 
 on Reelection Trick 
OPINION
Apr 23, 2012 1:18 PM CDT

Obama Blows $8B on Reelection Trick

'New York Post' thinks Medicare Advantage's stay of execution is a dirty trick

(Newser) - What would you say if President Obama took $8.3 billion in taxpayer money and used it for his reelection campaign? Because that's exactly what he's done by giving Medicare Advantage a stay of execution, according to Benjamin Sasse and Charles Hurt of the New York Post . The...

Individual Mandate: OK With Founding Fathers

Founding Fathers may have liked ObamaCare: Einer Elhauge

(Newser) - Health insurance mandates—unconstitutional? That's what the opponents of ObamaCare are arguing , "but there’s a major problem with this line of argument: It just isn’t true," writes Einer Elhuage in The New Republic . In fact, the founding fathers passed more than one mandate in Congress...

Hospitals Open Special ERs for Elderly

Special emergency rooms move slower, account for complexities

(Newser) - America is getting older, and the elderly account for 15% to 20% of emergency room visits, so hospitals have come up with a new way to cater to them: the geriatric ER. Dozens of these facilities are opening across the country, the New York Times reports, looking more like soothing...

ObamaCare to Add $340B to Deficit: Study

But White House shrugs off GOP analysis as 'new math'

(Newser) - The Affordable Care Act isn't going to reduce the deficit as the Congressional Budget Office claims; it's going to expand it by more than $340 billion, according to a new study by Charles Balhous, the GOP trustee for Medicare. Balhous argues that traditional budget math "double counts"...

Health Report: Same Test Can Cost $786—or $1,819

Choice of provider could have big effect on your premiums

(Newser) - Yet another factor that could put a crimp in your wallet when it comes to health care: The cost of procedures such as colonoscopies, mammograms, and Pap smears vary wildly across the nation, according to a new report picked up by USA Today . Researchers found that colonoscopies, for instance, could...

Holder to Judge: Yes, Obama Respects High Court

He had to defend president's comments on judicial activism

(Newser) - President Obama may have warned "unelected" justices about judicial activism, but that doesn't mean he opposes judicial authority, Eric Holder says. Following Obama's comments, a federal appeals court judge ordered the Justice Department to explain its views on the matter in three pages; Holder did it...

Annoyed Judge Wants DOJ to Refute Obama

'Unelected judges' comment seen as challenge to authority

(Newser) - When President Obama said that "unelected" justices shouldn't overturn ObamaCare , he apparently offended a federal appeals court judge in Houston. Yesterday, during oral arguments on a separate challenge of the health care law, Judge Jerry Smith asked a Justice Department attorney to submit a three-page, single-spaced letter specifically...

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