All Posts Tagged With: "healthcare law"

Obama Tries To Defuse Contentious Issue in Healthcare Plan

On Friday, the White House administration, in an attempt to defuse one of its healthcare law’s most contentious issues, proposed another way to shield organizations that are religiously affiliated, such as universities and hospitals, from needing to provide direct contraceptive coverage to employees. The new proposal would allow employees to obtain coverage from a separate [...]

Majority of Americans Ready to Move on from Healthcare

Recent polls show that the majority of Americans want the healthcare law critics to move on to another issue. On Monday, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that other national problems are what interests most Americans and they want the critics to move on as well. Just like before the historic Supreme Court decision, public [...]

Jindal Not Implementing Obamacare

Bobby Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana is one of the possible running mates for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. He said that even though the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act last week, he was not going to implement it in Louisiana. Jindal said the health care law was a blow to the freedoms [...]

Republicans: Voters to have final Health Care law say

Congressional leaders from the Republican Party said on Sunday that the voters and not the Supreme Court would have the final say on the health care law implemented by President Obama, when the election rolls around in November. Many GOP leaders believe the unpopularity of the health care law will help run Democrats from power. [...]

Republican Governors Looking for Showdown in Health Care

On Thursday, before the Supreme Court ruled on the healthcare law, the majority of people believed the court would strike it down. Governors said they would put off action of the Affordable Care Act until after the Court’s ruling. Now the governors must hope Mitt Romney is elected President and repeals the law. Five GOP [...]

Healthcare Worries in Texas

In the state of Texas, 25% of the residents do not have health insurance coverage, the highest rate of uninsured in the nation. The recent Supreme Court decision was not a partisan win or loss in the state, as it was in Washington. Although most likely those who did not have insurance had the most [...]

Ruling Places Doubt on Healthcare Expanding For Poor

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to uphold the overhaul of U.S. healthcare. However, its decision has caused doubt as to whether the upheld plan that is to extend coverage to over 30 million Americans who are uninsured, would reach the Americans who are the poorest. The court, in its ruling, allowed states to [...]

Supreme Court Upholds Healthcare Law

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John G. Roberts Jr. and four other Justices upheld the healthcare law put in place by President Obama, ruling that tax penalties could be imposed on those who refuse to have health insurance. The final vote was 5-4, with the four liberal justices siding with Chief Justice Roberts. Roberts [...]

Twenty-five Percent of Americans without Health Insurance

As the fate of the healthcare reform is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, a study was released that says 25% of working age Americans did not have health care coverage at some point during 2011. Unemployment and other job related changes were often the results of so many going without health insurance. [...]

Discussions of Obama’s New Healthcare Law Still Ongoing

Just one day after the supreme court suggested that the new healthcare law from President Obama might be in danger of being received is unconstitutional, the justices focused their attention to the practical consequences of the ruling like that. The justices at this point are split on the decision and the argument which lasted for [...]