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Battle over Obama health law reaches high court

The monumental fight over a health care law that touches all Americans and divides them sharply comes before the Supreme Court this week.

 

Romney vows to repeal and replace 'Obamacare' on law's anniversary

Obamacare

Days before President Obama's signature healthcare law goes in front of the Supreme Court, GOP front-runner Mitt Romney vowed to repeal and replace the law, speaking to a supportive crowd in a suburb of New Orleans.

 

How health care law affects lives of 7 Americans

Health Care

A father lost his job at a medical device company that is facing a new tax. A young woman got back on her parents' insurance and was able to get surgery for an injury that could have hobbled her. A part-time sales woman stopped putting off a colonoscopy and cancer screenings and saved nearly $3,000 because health plans now must pay for preventive care without co-pays. A business owner received a tax rebate for providing health coverage to her employees....

 

4 GOP-appointed justices control health law's fate

Supreme Court Justice

Here's a thought that can't comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices....

 

Court weighs making health coverage a fact of life

Barack Obama

Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no.

 

Feds release health overhaul blueprint for states

Barack Obama

Tackling a huge logistical challenge, the Obama administration Monday released an ambitious blueprint for states to match up uninsured Americans with coverage that's right for them under the health care overhaul law....

 

'The Road We've Traveled': Trailer For New Documentary Highlights President Obama's First-Term Accomplishments

Barack Obama

The Obama campaign, in its push to remind voters why they cast their ballots in 2008, is releasing a documentary that plays up the president's accomplishments. The two-minute trailer is for the documentary, "The Road We've Traveled," which takes a look back on President Obama's first term, from the collapse on Wall Street to the fight over health care. "Road," which is narrated by Tom Hanks and directed by Davis Guggenheim, who helmed the Oscar winning environmentalist documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. "Road" will be shown at Obama campaign events next week.

 

Success of health reform hinges on hiring 30,000 primary care doctors by 2015

Health Care Reform

On a chilly afternoon at a community clinic in Southeast Washington, three young doctors are busily laying the foundation for the health-care law’s success. Jacob Edwards flips through a manual on skin conditions, diagnosing a rash that looks like chicken pox. Jessica O’Babatunde consults her supervisor on treating an adolescent’s obesity, which is literally off-the-charts. And Julie Krueger peppers 3-year-old Daphauni with questions at her physical: How do you spell your name? What did you eat for breakfast? What’s your favorite vegetable? (Cheese.)

 

State Senate hits stalemate on universal healthcare for California

State lawmakers deadlocked Thursday over a controversial measure that would provide universal healthcare in California.

Senh: And so the state fight begins for universal healthcare. The same old arguments for and against it.

 

States to weigh in on basic health coverage

Health Care

U.S. health officials will allow states to select the basic set of medical benefits that must be offered by insurance plans participating in new exchanges mandated by the federal healthcare overhaul, the U.S. government said on Friday.

 

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