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Obamacare Has Not Saved Lives
Despite what Bernie Sanders says, "in reality, the best statistical estimate of the number of lives saved each year by the…
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Senate Republicans one step closer to repealing and replacing Obamacare
(CNSNews.com) – "[W]hen we come back January 3rd, we'll be moving to the Obamacare replacement resolution. The Obamacare…
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Mass. taxpayers to pay more than $160 million for Obamacare over next decade
BOSTON – Massachusetts taxpayers will pay a hefty price of more than $160 million over the next decade to cover federal expansion of…
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Social impact bonds for public health programs
Imagine a public health program that reduces the incidences of childhood asthma. Or imagine another one that assigns a home visiting nurse…
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New evidence of rising ‘Obamacare’ premiums
WASHINGTON (AP) — Premiums for popular low-cost medical plans under the federal health care law are expected to go up an average…
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Kennedy bill would bar religious exemption claims
WASHINGTON – Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III on Wednesday proposed "clarifying" the Religious Freedom Act in a way…
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Obamacare punt by high court gives hope to both sides
WASHINGTON – Both Republicans and Democrats support a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to send back to appeals courts cases challenging Obamacare…
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Zubik: A curse and a blessing
To the surprise of no one who has paid any attention to the litigation, the post-Scalia Supreme Court this week resolved…
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Supreme Court passes on ruling in Little Sisters case
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Supreme Court today punted the question of whether the government can compel nuns, priests, and faith-based schools…
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Judge sides with House Republicans against health care law
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Obama administration is unconstitutionally spending federal money to fund the president's…
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Significant premium hikes expected under Obamacare
Expect insurers to seek significant premium increases under President Barack Obama's health care law, in a wave of state-level requests rippling across the country ahead of the political conventions this summer.
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Little Sisters sees ray of hope in Obamacare court battle
WASHINGTON – A statement from government lawyers that health plans could be modified to provide contraceptive care for women under special circumstances may…
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A time for real Republican leadership
After the 2012 election, when Americans re-elected Barack Obama, Republican Party leadership rightly did some soul searching. Republicans were in shock…
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Supreme Court requests additional briefing on key Obamacare case
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Less than a week after an order of Catholic nuns asked the U.S. Supreme Court for a religious…
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Justices divided over Little Sisters case on contraception
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a new challenge to President Barack Obama's health care law, the Supreme Court appeared deeply and evenly…
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Insurers may be forced to pay for gender transition
WASHINGTON (AP) — Big companies are pushing back against proposed federal rules they say would require their medical plans to cover gender transition…
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Obamacare fines double for many uninsured at tax time
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many people who went without health insurance last year are now seeing fines more than double under President Barack Obama&…
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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…
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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…
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Hundreds in Congress back Little Sisters before high court
WASHINGTON – The Little Sisters of the Poor found out it has 205 Republican and 2 Democratic friends in Congress after the members…
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Obamacare, prescription drugs drive up costs, state insurers say
BOSTON — As health insurers sat before state officials Monday to explain the math behind their rate increases, several pointed to an Affordable…
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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,…
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Vote to repeal Obama’s health law marks testy start to 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is poised to send a bill to President Barack Obama's desk repealing his signature health care…
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Judge rules pro-life group exempt from Obamacare contraceptive mandate
Written by Eric Tucker WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday sided with an anti-abortion group in its challenge of a…
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Device makers bid good riddance to job-killing Obamacare tax
BOSTON – A budget deal reached in Congress temporarily shelved a controversial tax on medical devices that industry leaders in Massachusetts claim has…
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Report breaks down health care cost trends in Massachusetts
Ongoing market consolidation and higher U.S. health care spending growth rates are identified as reasons for concern in the Massachusetts Health…
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House delays vote targeting Planned Parenthood, health law
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders have decided to delay until January a House vote to unravel President Barack Obama's health care…
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Senate passes bill to unravel Obama’s health care law
WASHINGTON (AP) — Openly welcoming a preordained veto, Republicans drove legislation to Senate passage Thursday aimed at crippling two of their favorite targets:…
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Senate set to OK Republican health care bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are pushing toward Senate approval of legislation demolishing President Barack Obama's signature health care law and halting…
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Health spending grew at fastest rate of Obama years in 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health care spending last year grew at the fastest pace since President Barack Obama took office, driven by…
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Things to know about Sanders’ health overhaul proposal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The most ambitious "repeal and replace" health care plan from a presidential candidate comes from Sen. Bernie Sanders,…
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Why the Little Sisters of the Poor should win in the Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a challenge by an order of Catholic nuns, the Little Sisters of the…
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Why the Little Sisters of the Poor will lose
(RNS) — The Little Sisters will lose. In the Supreme Court, that is. How do I know this? OK, let's back…
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Study: To avoid higher health law premiums, switch plans
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a well-known auto insurance commercial, a garrulous gecko promises you can save 15 percent if you switch insurers.…
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Supreme Court to hear nuns’ challenge to Obamacare contraceptive mandate
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon have another opportunity to determine the legal contours of religious liberty in America. On Friday,…
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Obamacare: Open season for fraud
As if the Affordable Care Act's massive increase in government intervention in the U.S. health care system was not…
