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Obamacare

Health care fines press millennials as sign-up deadline nears

WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of young adults healthy enough to think they don't need insurance face painful choices this year as the sign-up deadline approaches for President Barack Obama's health care law. Fines for being uninsured rise sharply in 2016 – averaging nearly $1,000 per household, according

Massachusetts

Families raising children with Down syndrome find local, national support

BOSTON – When Carl and Julie Stone discovered four years ago that their third child, Josiah, would be born with trisomy 21, or Down syndrome, they didn't blink. "It didn't frighten us, it didn't scare us, it didn't make us sad,"

Massachusetts

Rising health costs pose long-term financial threat to families, study says

BOSTON – Spiraling health care costs pose a grave fiscal threat to families, threatening to eat up as much as 45 percent of household incomes and crowd out other basic needs within two decades, according to a recent study. "You're looking at an unprecedented fiscal crisis for American

Abortion

Feminists, humanitarians drawn to March for Life in Washington

WASHINGTON – The annual March for Life is attracting a new crowd. In recent years, the event has drawn – and reached – groups that include feminists, human-rights advocates and atheists, not just the religiously devout. The march has historically attracted religious leaders, Catholic students and activists, and has focused largely on the

Abortion

In unusual move, Planned Parenthood endorses Hillary Clinton for president

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which bills itself as the leading nonprofit provider of reproductive health services in the U.S., officially hopped on the Hillary Clinton bandwagon Thursday.

Barack Obama

Obama vetoes bill to repeal signature health care law, cut Planned Parenthood funding

WASHINGTON (AP) — Protecting his signature domestic achievement, President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed Republican-inspired legislation to repeal his health care law, saying to do so "would reverse the significant progress we have made in improving health care in America." Republican lawmakers have pushed many repeal measures since 2010,

boston

Baker joins DeLeo, cabinet members at Boston hospital

BOSTON – Boston Children's Hospital is the place to be Thursday morning. Gov. Charlie Baker, Speaker Robert DeLeo, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash, Health and Human Service Secretary Marylou Sudders and executives from the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership are all expected to turn up

Barack Obama

Obama gets first health-law repeal bill from Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-led Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama Wednesday repealing his signature health law, fulfilling a promise to Republican voters in a presidential election year but inviting a certain veto. The nearly party-line vote in the House was 240-181. The legislation already passed the Senate last year