All Posts Tagged With: "health care law"
Senate Approves Measure to Kill Part of Healthcare Overhaul
In what was largely just a symbolic gesture, the U.S. Senate voted Thursday by an overwhelming majority to repeal a tax that helps pay for President Obama’s healthcare overhaul of 2010. By a 79 to 20 vote, the Senate rescinded the tax of 2.3% on importers and manufacturers of medical devices. That tax is expected [...]
Romney Plans to Undo Healthcare Reform When Elected
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he would eliminate the healthcare reform law of President Barack Obama if he were to win the presidential election on November 6. However, there is a big question as to whether he would or if any other president would have enough power to do it. According to two [...]
Women’s Group Criticizes Health Care
A women’s conservative group has launched an ad campaign of $6 million in a set of battleground states. The ad campaign criticizes the health care law of President Barack Obama. A one minute ad has been paid for by the Concerned Women for America and it features Ami Siems a family physician warning that some [...]
Parties Strategize about Health Care Law before Verdict
House Republicans are now planning on their next move even before the Supreme Court release its verdict on Obama’s health care law. If the measure is not repealed, they plan to call for a vote to repeal the law to reinforce their opposition to the bill. This has been their political identity ever since Obama [...]
Court Ruling on Healthcare Could Affect Medicare
The U.S. Supreme Court will rule later this month on the new healthcare reform overhaul put into place by the Obama Administration. Opponents of the healthcare law of President Obama have predicted there will be dire consequences for Medicare benefits ever since the overhaul was signed in 2011. The warnings have for the most part [...]
One Billion Dollars in Rebates from Health Care Insurers
Health insurers in the U.S. are expected to have over $1 billion in rebates for employers and consumers this year. The rebates are thanks to a provision of the health care overhaul legislation that forces the insurers to provide the rebates if enough of the premium dollars they earn in health care are not spent. [...]
Obama Tries to Emulate Teddy Roosevelt
President Barack Obama tried to be like Teddy Roosevelt during his speech in Osawatomie, Kansas. In some ways analysts said that Obama failed because the times were different now. Political and economic situations were reverse compared to the Roosevelt era. When Theodore Roosevelt made his speech about tougher laws and regulations, government interventionism was decreasing [...]
Court of Appeals Upholds Health Care Law
A federal appeals court upheld the health care law last Tuesday. The decision was made by a prominent conservative jurist. Obama’s Affordable Care Act was set to be considered by the Supreme Court. This is the third out of the four appellate court rulings that dealt with the law on its merits and the second [...]
Obama Removes Parts of Health Care Law
The Obama administration announced that it would remove a provision in the health care law because it is too expensive and would not work in the long run. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of health and human services, said that the premiums from the long-term care insurance program would be too high that only a few healthy [...]
Supreme Court Asked to Rule on Health Care Law
The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to rule on the case regarding the 2010 health care overhaul law. With this latest development, it wouldn’t be long until the court would hear the challenges to the law, arguments in spring and come up with a decision by June of 2012. It would just be in [...]
As the shareholders in Germany opposes the re-election of Mr Flint as Chairman and Mr Gulliver CEO of HSBC Holdings ...
Since Obama seems to never know anything about any issue at any given time on any given subject from any ...
a one year high of $63.82? On May 15th?
What a nonsense, the shares were at $77.11!