Health Care Law

Awaiting the Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling – New York Times Blogs

He has some financial interests in the health care field. Anticipation has reached a fever pitch this week as the nation awaits the Supreme Court’s decision on the fate of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The core question before … Continue reading

Billions of Dollars Are in Play Over Health Care Law – New York Times

PEEKSKILL, N.Y. — In this small city about an hour from Manhattan, pregnant teenagers, laid-off professionals and day laborers without insurance receive care at a community health center that has been part of the social fabric here for nearly …

A Recovering Lawyer on Health Care, the Supreme Court, and 2 Great Stocks – Motley Fool

Next week, the Supreme Court will issue its opinion on the Affordable Health Care Act (forgive me for forgoing the silly and uneducated “Obamacare”). Those of us who practiced law but don’t today — we “recovering lawyers” — watch the … Continue reading

Pam Strickland: Health care reform law would help the uninsured – Knoxville News Sentinel

Earlier this month more than 600 of my fellow uninsured Tennesseans waited overnight to get medical care at Sewanee: The University of the South from Remote Area Medical’s 667th free health care clinic. When it first came into being, Knoxville … Continue reading

In court ruling on health care law, impact on stocks is high and uncertain. How they may fare – Washington Post

NEW YORK — Insurers and other health care companies are facing costly new restrictions and fees under the new law. The Republicans, the party most associated big business, hate it. So if President Obama’s health care overhaul is repealed by … Continue reading

Supreme Court Health Care Decision May Put Sickest Americans At Risk – Huffington Post

The system will likely fail Americans like Lewis again and again, if the Supreme Court overturns President Barack Obama’s health care reform law next week. Without its rules that will prohibit health insurance companies from discriminating …

Health-care reform: what polls say ahead of a Supreme Court ruling – The Christian Science Monitor

As the US Supreme Court prepares to announce its ruling on President Obama’s health-care reform law, polls reveal an American public sharply divided on the issue. They agree on the major problems in the health-care system – the high cost … Continue reading

Obama Health Law Seen Valid by Scholars Expecting Rejection (Washn) – nola.com

Questioning by four Democratic appointees was more sympathetic to the provision, a centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s health-care law. “There was certainly a lot of hostile questioning by the more conservative members of the court,” said Jesse Choper …

Obama Health-Care Ruling May Turn Stock Tables: Chart of the Day – Bloomberg

Health-care providers are unlikely to sustain a stock-market lead over medical plans once the U.S. Supreme Court decides on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to Jefferies & Co. analysts. The CHART OF THE DAY compares the …

Insurers Seek to Soften Their Image, No Matter How Court Rules on Health Act – New York Times

As the country waits to see how the Supreme Court will rule on the Affordable Care Act, health insurance companies are taking matters into their own hands. The Supreme Court is set to rule on President Obama’s health care overhaul … Continue reading