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Raw Feelings Over Health Care Law Have Eased, Poll Suggests
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the health care debate, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Barack Obama's overhaul have subsided. Ahead of a vote on repeal in the GOP-led House this week, strong opposition to the law stands at 30 percent, close to the lowest level registered in AP-GfK surveys dating to September 2009. The nation is divided over the law, but the strength and intensity of the opposition appear diminished. The law expands coverage to more than 30 million uninsured, and would require, for the first time, that ...
Judge: Lawsuit Over Health Care Overhaul Can Go to Trial
By not in system - AOL NewsPENSACOLA, Fla. (Oct. 14) -- Crucial pieces of a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's health care overhaul can go to trial, with a judge ruling Thursday he wants to hear more arguments over whether it's constitutional to force citizens to buy health insurance. In a written ruling, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson said it also needs to be decided whether it's constitutional to penalize people who do not buy insurance with taxes and to require states to expand their Medicaid programs. Another federal judge in Michigan threw out a similar lawsuit last week. Vinson set a hearing for ...
Congress Completes Health Care Overhaul
By not in system - AOL News(March 25) -- The U.S. House of Representatives voted 220 to 207 on Thursday night to give final approval to the reconciliation portion of the health care reform bill, sending the measure to President Obama for his signature. ...
Obama, House Republicans Lock Horns at GOP Retreat
By not in system - AOL NewsBALTIMORE (Jan. 29) - In a remarkably frank encounter, President Barack Obama chastised Republican lawmakers on Friday for opposing him on taxes, health care and economic stimulus, while they accused him of ignoring their ideas and driving up the national debt. The president and GOP House members took turns questioning and sometimes lecturing each other face to face for more than hour at the Republican gathering. Obama warned that their sharp criticisms of him over the past year make it almost politically impossible for them to agree with him even if an accord would help the American ...
Obama Tells Democrats to Compromise on Health Care
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 20) -- President Barack Obama advised fellow Democrats against trying to jam a health care bill through Congress after taking a devastating hit from the loss of a Senate seat. He said Wednesday it's time to come together around a bill that can draw Republican support, too. When Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown takes office he will hand the GOP power to block the Democratic agenda, including Obama's top domestic priority of extending health coverage to the uninsured. "The people of Massachusetts spoke. He's got to be part of that process," Obama said. Now Democrats need ...
Who's Uninsured in the U.S.?
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyDiscover where your state stands when it comes to health insurance. National Public Radio is featuring a map showing -- by state and congressional district -- the percentage of people under 65 and children under 18 who don't have coverage, according to the Census Bureau.Some highlights of the Census Bureau report: 17 percent of the U.S. population under 65 had no health insurance last year; Texas had the highest rate of uninsured at 26.5 percent, and Florida was second at 24.8 percent; Massachusetts, which requires most residents to have insurance, had the lowest rate of the uninsured under 65 ...
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