Health Care Law

Health Care Industry Donates More To Obama Than GOP Candidates – Huffingtonpost.com

Drug companies won more protections for brand-name drugs against cheaper drugs in Obama’s health care reform law. Proposals to have Medicare negotiate drug prices and to allow importation of drugs from Canada did not make it into the final bill.

Health law undermines marriage, GOP says – Pioneer Press

House Republicans are launching a new attack on President Barack Obama’s health care reform law today: It will drive you to divorce. The health reform law could undermine marriage because once people tie the knot, they may no longer be … Continue reading

State panel told challenges to health-care law hinge on Supreme Court’s schedule – Tulsa World

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma lawmakers heard very different predictions about the chances that the legal challenges to the federal health-care law will be resolved before the 2012 presidential election and whether further state “nullification …

Lawyer Opposing Health Law Is Familiar Face to the Justices – Gainesville Sun

And if, as expected, the Supreme Court soon announces that it will hear a challenge to last year’s health care law, it seems increasingly likely that it will be Mr. Clement who argues, in the thick of the 2012 campaign, … Continue reading

Democrats not giving up on part of health care law – Washington Times

Democrats are digging in their heels over a recently suspended part of President Obama’s health care law, saying they want to fix the flailing long-term care program instead of repealing it, as Republicans have proposed. In a hearing Wednesday …

Health care and law join forces to help Boston’s patients – Boston Globe

Forcing a landlord to make needed repairs on a family’s debilitated Mattapan apartment. Getting a disabled child access to appropriate special education services. Helping a young homeless mother – a survivor of domestic violence – and her young …

Obama’s health-care law is in line with GOP’s ’93 plan – Nashville Tennessean

Would you support a health-care plan for the nation that makes everyone buy health insurance; makes employers with more than 50 workers offer insurance; bans denying people insurance based on pre-existing conditions; gives subsidies to low …

Insurers Weigh In on Health Care Law – New York Times (blog)

The health insurance industry is urging the Supreme Court to decide as quickly as it can whether the federal health care law is, in fact, constitutional and to consider striking it down altogether if the individual mandate does not pass … Continue reading

SCOTUS firms up health challenge timeline – Washington Post

The Supreme Court will take its first look at the challenges to the new federal health care law at its Conference on Thursday, November 10. Five of the six pending petitions (the sixth is not ready yet) were distributed to … Continue reading

Supreme Court to Discuss Health Care Law Nov. 10 – ABC News

The Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors Nov. 10 to discuss challenges to the health care law. The conference will mark the first time the justices consider whether to grant one of the five pending petitions regarding issues such … Continue reading