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Opinion: Waiver-ing on Health Care Reform
By John Merline - AOL NewsWhen the House passed health reform in March, Joe Hansen, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, responded with fulsome praise. "This is an achievement that will rank among the highest in our national experience," he said. Among other things, he said, the law would put "an end to the worst of insurance company abuses," including "lifetime limits on the dollar value of benefits." Less than six months later, UFCW sent a note to its members complaining that "the gradual elimination of annual limits on benefits under the Act has a significant impact on many of ...
Opinion: Health Reform's Promises Keep Faltering
By John Merline - AOL News
(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 ...
Opinion: Health Reform's Legal Challenge Lacks Any Merit
By Ian Millhiser - AOL News(Oct. 15) -- One minute, Christina Turner was enjoying drinks at a Fort Lauderdale bar with some men she'd recently met. The next minute, she woke up on a roadside covered with cuts and bruises indicating that she'd been raped. And this drug-assisted assault was only the beginning of Christina's nightmare. Months later, she lost her health insurance and was unable to obtain new coverage because the anti-AIDS medication given to sexual assault victims branded her with a pre-existing condition. Christina is not alone. Nearly 60 million other Americans have also been branded with ...
Opinion: A New Day for Health Care in America
By not in system - AOL News
(Sept. 23) -- Today marks a turning point for health care consumers. As part of the new health insurance reform law, the Affordable Care Act, new patient protections will begin to take effect, ending some of the worst abuses of insurance companies and giving Americans important new rights. Thanks to these reforms, Americans with health insurance will have more security. Insurance plans will no longer be able to set lifetime dollar limits on your benefits or lock you out of medication and treatment you need. And your plan won't be able to cancel your policy because of an unintentional mistake ...
Poverty Rate Isn't Only Bad News for US Economy Lately
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- As the American economy shows some signs of pulling out of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, a host of dire statistics paints a less-than-rosy fiscal portrait for poor and middle-class citizens. Growing Poverty Rate The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the poverty rate in America rose from 13.2 percent of the population to 14.3 percent. That means that 43.6 million people, a full one out of every seven U.S. citizens, now lives below the poverty line. For a family of four, that means an annual income of $21,954 or less. Growing Number of Uninsured In ...
Virginia Isn't for Obama Lovers: Pair of Rulings Escalates Key Political Fights
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 2) -- Virginia may be for lovers, but given recent developments there, the state isn't giving much love to President Barack Obama. In 2008, Obama became the first Democrat in 44 years to take the state of Virginia, defeating Republican rival John McCain by a margin of more than 8 percentage points. Just one year later, however, independent voters swung in the other direction and helped elect conservative Republican Bob McDonnell as governor. In 2010, McDonnell was cast as Obama's foil as he was tapped to deliver the televised rebuttal to the president's State of the Union address. ...
Change Index: Obama's 5 Most Far-Reaching Accomplishments to Date
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 21) -- On Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed a new financial reform bill into law, the culmination of a two-year struggle to fundamentally alter how Wall Street does business in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis. Surge Desk's Dana Chivvis earlier highlighted the main changes the law will herald for consumers and industry alike, but we are also keeping tabs on where President Obama now stands vis-a-vis the overall change he promised to deliver to the country. Setting aside the question of whether his legislative accomplishments are positive or negative, Surge Desk has gone back ...
Threats Overwhelm Political Discourse as Health Care Anger Boils Up
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyBricks through windows. A severed gas line. Faxes depicting nooses. A coffin outside a home. Suspicious white powder sent to a congressional office. Scenes from an apocalyptic Hollywood movie? No, just another day in the increasingly ugly political climate of post-health care reform America. Simmering resentment by opponents of the new health care law signed by President Barack Obama this week has led to a growing number of reports of vandalism and intimidation against Democratic members of Congress and their families. Federal and local authorities are investigating threats and other ...
Inconvenient Truths on Health Care Reform
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThere's an elephant in the health care debate room. ...
Chaos Theory - Health Care Reform -- Passed Unanimously!
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