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GOP Budget Proposal Would Increase Health Cost for Future Retirees
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Most future retirees would pay considerably more for health care under the new budget proposed by House Republicans, according to an analysis by nonpartisan experts for Congress that signals problems ahead for the plan. The fiscal blueprint would put people now 54 and younger in a different kind of health care program when they retire, unlike the Medicare that their parents and grandparents have known. Instead of coverage for a set of benefits prescribed from Washington, they'd get a federal payment to buy private insurance from a choice of government-regulated plans. "A ...
Congress Votes to Repeal Small Part of Health Law
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Senate has voted to send the White House its first rollback of last year's health care law, a bipartisan repeal of a burdensome tax reporting requirement that's widely unpopular with businesses. The Senate voted 87 to 12 to repeal the filing requirement, which would have forced millions of businesses to file tax forms for every vendor selling them more than $600 in goods each year, starting in 2012. The filing requirement is unrelated to health care. However, it would have been used to pay for part of the new health law. President Barack Obama has said he favors repealing ...
Forget 'Death Panels' -- Poll Says Most Want Better Life, Not Longer
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A large majority of Americans say the quality of life, not the length, is more important when their days are numbered. But more than half also say the health care system should spare no expense to extend life. The seemingly contradictory views were among those revealed in a new poll conducted by the National Journal and the Regence Foundation that probed beliefs about that most uncomfortable and inevitable subject: death, and what should be done as it approaches. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images More than 70 percent of Americans believe enhancing the quality of life, not ...
Opinion: The Jobs and Health Care Connection
By not in system - AOL NewsMaybe I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I finally just got what is bankrupting this country. It came to me when I was getting ready for bed and glanced over at my balled-up pair of arthritis gloves. In the past year, I've been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I'm on all kinds of supplements and drugs, but I thought I'd buy these simple pressure gloves made of elasticized cotton to see if they'd help with the pain in my hands. The gloves were inside out, with the stitching exposed; for some reason, they reminded me of my friends who are poor and crafty and make their own clothes or ...
Obama Administration Returns to Earlier Conscience Protections For Health Workers
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe Obama administration on Friday reversed most of the provisions of controversial federal conscience-protection regulations that were instituted by George W. Bush at the end of his presidency, thereby leaving Bush's successor with a politically difficult decision that would alienate either abortion rights supporters or opponents, or both. The Bush administration had pushed the 11th-hour regulations through in December 2008, despite President-elect Obama's vow to rescind them; when Obama came into office, he instead said he would have the Department of Health and Human Services review the ...
Justice Ginsburg Expects Health Care Cases (and Retirement) to Be a Ways Off
By Julie Moos - Politics DailyU.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has made it clear that she does not plan to retire any time soon, nor does she expect challenges to health care legislation to arrive quickly for the high court's review. In an interview with NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg at George Washington University last week, the 77-year-old cancer survivor also talked about her career as a justice and how she gets along with her colleagues. Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton and began serving in 1993. Here's what she said about retirement: One of the ...
South Dakota Lawmakers Push Bill for Mandatory Gun Ownership
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyAmericans feel strongly about protecting the right to own a gun, and many feel equally strongly about their right to forgo health insurance. One doesn't necessarily follow the other, but there's enough of a correlation that in South Dakota five legislators have introduced legislation that would make it mandatory for anyone who reaches the age of 21 to purchase a firearm that they would then use for their self-defense. It's known as the "Act to provide for an individual mandate to adult citizens to provide for the self-defense of themselves and others." In political terms, it's a smackdown to ...
Mitt Romney Not Sorry for 'Romneycare,' but Will It Kill a White House Bid?
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsToday, likely GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney defended the universal health care law he implemented as governor of Massachusetts, saying there's a clear difference between his plan and President Barack Obama's reform effort. Romney has been in the hot seat during the health care debate because key elements of his plan are reflected in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. "Romneycare" includes an individual coverage mandate, for example, the provision that prompted Judge Roger Vinson to declare Obama's plan unconstitutional. According to Romney, "states have rights that the ...
Eight in 10 Internet Users Go Online for Health Care Information
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyEighty percent of Americans who go online use the Internet to track down health care information, a percentage exceeded only by users of e-mail and search engines, according to a study conducted last August and September by the Pew Research Center and the California HealthCare Foundation. Since not all Americans get on the Internet, Pew says that the 80 percent who use online to search health care subjects works out to 59 percent of the overall adult population. A plurality of these users (48 percent) say they are looking up the information on behalf of someone else, 36 percent say they are ...
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