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Ideological Smackdown in the Courts Will Determine Fate of Health Care Law
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyWith all the conservative legal challenges to the new health care law, at least one federal judge was bound to declare the whole thing unconstitutional. It's only one ruling, but if you're a supporter of the law, it feels like a punch to the gut. By the Obama administration's count, federal judges have dismissed 12 challenges to the Affordable Care Act. Two judges have upheld it, one ruled that its requirement that most people buy insurance is unconstitutional, and now we have a ruling that the whole law is unconstitutional because of that requirement. Sure, this law is headed inevitably for ...
Bill Frist Tells Republicans to Drop Efforts to Repeal Health Care Reform
By not in system - AOL NewsFormer Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has a message for Republicans moving to repeal President Obama's landmark health care reform law: Don't. ...
Bill Frist Tells Republicans to Drop Efforts to Repeal Health Care Reform
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyFormer Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has a message for Republicans moving to repeal President Obama's landmark health care reform law: Don't. Frist, a physician who retired from Congress in 2007, said while the legislation is not perfect, and "not the bill that I would have drafted," it is "the law of the land." He suggests that instead of mounting an effort to repeal it (which is doomed in the House), Republicans should use the law as a "platform" to improve the law. Related Stories Polls Show Conflicting Results on Health Care Law as House Readies ...
'Obamacare' Mandates Declared Unconstitutional: First Reactions
By David Knowles - AOL News(Dec. 13) -- Does mandatory health insurance go against the U.S. Constitution? Virginia U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled today that the coverage mandates in President Barack Obama's signature health care legislation "exceed the constitutional boundaries of congressional power," a potential setback for the new law. Though the matter is far from settled, and does not necessarily mean that "Obamacare," as many conservative critics call it, will not go forward, pundits from across the political spectrum offered a flurry of reactions to Hudson's ruling (which can be read in full ...
Federal Health Care Law Survives Legal Challenge in Michigan
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyPresident Obama's health care overhaul has survived a legal challenge in Michigan, where a federal judge said Congress does have the authority to enforce a provision that requires people get insurance. The ruling Thursday by U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh in Detroit was a blow to the Christian legal group, the Thomas More Law Center, which filed the suit along with four individuals. The judge rejected their claim that the insurance mandate, and the financial penalty if someone skips coverage, are illegal under the Constitution's commerce clause, The Associated Press reported. Steeh ...
Shiny, Happy Health Care Reform
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Rush Limbaugh Snookered by Bear-Hunting Judge Hoax
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWatch out, all of you liberal supporters of health care reform -- U.S. District Roger Vinson of Florida is coming after you with his shotgun. At least that was the jokey, implied message earlier this week from conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh said Vinson, who ruled that parts of a lawsuit challenging the new health law can go forward, was an avid hunter who once killed three bears, stuffed them himself and mounted their heads on his courtroom door -- to "instill the fear of God into the accused." This "would not be good news" for those liberals defending the health ...
Barney Frank Foe is Onetime Town Hall Tormenter
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyRep. Barney Frank, the brainy but abrasive chairman of the House banking committee, is facing a Democratic primary challenge from a woman who decided to take him on after they had a nasty exchange at a town hall meeting last year. When Rachel Brown asked the Massachusetts congressman in 2009 about the "Nazi policy" of health care reform, an annoyed Frank shot back that talking with her was "like arguing with a dining room table." The 29-year-old Brown said the clash inspired her to run in the Sept. 14 Massachusetts primary, although she told the Associated Press, "I didn't realize at the time ...
Medicare Strengthened by Health Care Reform, Trustees Say
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyMedicare is in better financial shape because of new health care reforms, which are expected to extend the life of the health benefits program by 12 years, a new report says. The report -- authored each year by the trustees charged with monitoring the solvency of Social Security and Medicare -- projected that Medicare's hospital trust fund will remain solvent through 2029 – a dozen years longer than the same group projected a year ago. Nonetheless, the projection falls short of what many Democrats predicted when championing the reform bill last year, and it also assumes Medicare ...
Donald Berwick: 5 Questions About Obama's Recess Appointment, Answered
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsThe White House announced Tuesday evening that President Obama would be using a recess appointment to place Donald Berwick, the administration's nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in office. The position has been vacant since 2006, but the choice of Berwick has caused an uproar from Republicans, who by some accounts are using the confirmation process to reignite the health care debate. Below, Surge Desk answers some of your questions about the contentious appointment. 1. Who is Donald Berwick? Berwick, 63, is the president and CEO of the Institute for ...
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