(CNSNews.com) – Mark Paoletta could certainly have personal reasons to take an interest in the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Their friendship dates back decades, including when Paoletta was diagnosed with cancer and Thomas was at his side regularly, or when Paoletto and Thomas regularly paid visits to the Irish nuns who taught him in a segregated school in the Jim Crow South at the nursing home where they lived out their final days.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama's health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That's sure to stoke another "Obamacare" controversy days before a presidential election.
Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan will increase an average of 25 percent across the 39 states served by the federally run online market, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services. Some states will see much bigger jumps, others less.
