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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 ...
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 ...
Polls Show Public May Not Know What It Wants on Health Care Law
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Opinion: The High Cost of Cheaper Drugs
By not in system - AOL NewsThirty years ago my infant son was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that make even common cold germs potentially life threatening. His disorder -- clinically termed a primary immunodeficiency disease -- started me on my career as a patient activist. Today, my son -- and thousands of others suffering similar diseases -- is leading a normal productive life without fear of becoming desperately ill from a minor infection, thanks in large part to a "biologic" drug called immunoglobulin therapy. It does for him what his body's natural immune system cannot. But this life-saving treatment is ...
Health Care Repeal Bill Up for Vote on Wednesday
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyAfter a weeklong reprieve from partisan battles, Democrats and Republicans returned to the floor of the House on Tuesday to debate the repeal of the health care reform law. The new bill, due for a vote in the House on Wednesday, is officially known as the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act," and is largely seen as a symbolic gesture. It stands little chance of coming before the Senate for a vote -- where a Democratic majority is firmly in place -- and it faces the threat of a presidential veto should it actually pass both houses. Related Stories Bill Frist ...
Opinion: Health Reform's Promises Keep Faltering
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(Nov. 20) -- Everyone knows the old cliche – Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But what do you say when you get fooled the third, fourth, fifth or sixth time? That's what supporters of health care reform might want to ask themselves 'round about now. After all, early promises made about the health care reform law enacted in March keep falling by the wayside. Here are a few of the big ones: It will be good for Democrats in November. In mid-March, White House adviser David Axelrod told CNN that reform would help Democrats in the midterms. And Robert Creamer ...
McConnell Flip-Flops on Earmarks, But Does It Really Matter?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 16) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reversed himself Monday and endorsed a moratorium on earmarks, the sly legislative devices by which members of Congress direct federal funds to their pet projects. South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint joined other GOP tea partiers in pressuring McConnell, who has steered about $1 billion to Kentucky with earmarks, into changing his mind. The move put McConnell and the tea partiers in an unfamiliar position, one aligned with President Barack Obama. "I welcome Senator McConnell's decision to join me and members of both parties who support ...
Study: Swallowing Foreign Objects Costs Millions Each Year
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- The country could save millions in health care costs each year if Americans would stop intentionally swallowing foreign objects like pens, batteries and even razorblades. That's the conclusion of a small new study, which tallies the health care expenditures required to treat 305 cases of foreign-object swallowing over eight years at a single hospital. The oral ingestion incidents cost a whopping $2,018,073 to handle, from nursing care to surgical procedures. But if only a polite request -- "America, stop eating paperclips" -- could solve the problem. In fact, psychiatric ...
Americans Best Brits on Lifespan, But Suffer More Illness
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Americans can expect to outlive their British peers, but not without suffering chronic ailments to a greater extent than those living across the Atlantic. A collaborative effort between U.S.-based Rand Corp and Britain's Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has reached that conclusion, after evaluating data on Americans and Brits aged 50 and older. "If you get sick at older ages, you will die sooner in England than in the United States," James Smith, who co-authored the study, told Reuters. How did researchers draw their country-vs.-country conclusions? They analyzed a massive ...
Report: Number of Americans With Diabetes Projected to Soar
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As many as one-third of American adults could develop diabetes in the next 40 years, according to a new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ...
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