Health Care Law

New report touts benefits of health-care reform for Virginians – Daily Press

Joining in the call, Jill Hanken, staff attorney for the Virginia Poverty Law Center, outlined the economic challenges … she pointed out the real financial benefits already effected by “health-care reform” in Virginia. She cited the popular …

US health care law offers W.Va. prison savings – RealClearPolitics

The new federal health care law could deliver an unexpected savings to West Virginia. The Charleston Daily Mail (http://bit.ly/uKIu6w ) reports that the state Division of Corrections could save up to $2 million a year in inmate medical care …

Report: Romney health care law helps illegal immigrants – USA Today

The Massachusetts health care law signed by then-governor Mitt Romney in 2006 includes a program that allows illegal immigrants to get medical treatment if they don’t have insurance, according to a news story out today. The Romney campaign is blaming … Continue reading

Romney blames successor for illegal immigrant health care – CNN

The story details a program in the 2006 Massachusetts health care plan (which then Gov. Romney signed into law) called Health Safety Net, which allows undocumented illegal immigrants to obtain needed medical care along with other people in the …

Romney health care law helps illegal immigrants on insurance, LA Times – eMaxHealth.com

With the Republican presidential debate heating up, frontrunners Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and Rick Perry are being scrutinized more than ever before, and Mitt Romney’s health care plan in Massachusetts has been widely criticized, with the LA Times …

Health overhaul may trim costs for state prisons – Charleston Daily Mail

The state Division of Corrections could save up to $2 million a year in inmate medical care costs when new federal health care laws take effect in 2014. Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that passed last … Continue reading

Stupak: No regrets over key health care law vote – RealClearPolitics

Former Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak had to endure death threats and screams of “baby killer!” for lending his crucial support to the federal health care law once President Barack Obama pledged to sign an executive order reinforcing that no …

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Health care law in March? – Oregonian

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and challengers of the president’s health care overhaul are pushing for Supreme Court consideration of the law in late March, judging by the speed with which they are filing legal papers. Parties in a … Continue reading

Mitt Romney faces criticism — again — on health care – Boston Herald

LAS VEGAS — Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Sen. Pennsylvania Rick Santorum have been tag-teaming presidential rival Mitt Romney over Massachusetts’ health care law. Romney said during Tuesday night’s GOP debate that “Obamacare is bad …

A Tea Party Panel Supports Health Care Law’s Repeal – New York Times

A Tea Party commission trying to “crowd-source” a plan to reduce the federal budget deficit says it found broad support for repealing the health care legislation passed last year and eliminating entire federal departments, but much less …