Health Care Bill
The Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962, introduced October 29, 2009, passed on November 7, 2009) is a legislative bill of the United States House of Representatives during the 1st Session of the 111th Congress. Its primary sponsor is the Dean of the House, John Dingell of Michigan.
The Affordable Health Care for America Act is a revision of an earlier proposal, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200). The revisions include refinements designed to meet the goals outlined in President Obama's address before a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009 concerning health care reform.
On December 24, 2009, the United States Senate passed its health care bill with a vote of 60-39 along party lines, one Senator being absent.
Paperwork Nightmare: A Struggle to Fix New Law
Talk about a paperwork nightmare: Tucked into the massive new health care law is a demand that nearly 40 million U.S. businesses file tax forms for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods.
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Admin. buys $700K health care ad
Starring Andy Griffith discussing Medicare, the cable spot is aimed at seniors.
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Missouri Ballot Measure Will Test Popularity of Obama's Health Care Law
More than 1 million people in Missouri are expected to participate in what amounts to the largest-ever public opinion poll on the nation's new health care law.
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GOP to Sebelius: Don't cover abortions
A group of Republican senators on Wednesday threatened to force changes to the new national health care law unless the Obama administration does more to ensure that federal dollars won't be used to pay for elective abortions. Emboldened by a new analysis by Congress' nonpartisan research agency, the Republicans urged ...
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Study Shows Abortion Funding Rules Would Not Apply to High-Risk Pools
A newly released congressional report found that abortion restrictions attached to the health care overhaul would not apply to high-risk insurance pools run at the state level, prompting Republican senators to urge the administration to issue new rules.
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Rep. Pence: Medicare Chief Berwick ‘Not Entitled to That Job,’ Must Explain Praise for UK ‘Socialist Health Care System’
A top House Republican says Dr. Donald Berwick, who President Obama appointed to head the Medicare/Medicaid progam without Senate approval, is 'not entitled to that job,' and should have had a confirmation hearing.
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Agents want piece of reform pie
A group of lawmakers asks that insurance brokers be included in the new health care system.
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Abortion provision threatens Dems
Health care reform galvanizes abortion rights opponents and advocates in Pa. and elsewhere.
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Britain’s National Health Service, Praised by Obama’s Medicare Chief, To Undergo Cost-Cutting Overhaul
Britain's National Health Service, which rations basic health care services to help control costs, will undergo major budget cuts and restructuring, ostensibly to make the government-run system less bureaucratic and more decentralized.
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Opposition Mounts Against ObamaCare Tax Provision
Business advocates are hoping Congress scraps a tax provision in the health care overhaul law that they say is overly burdensome to smaller companies.
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Inside the Beltway
FREAKY LEAKY Why, it's just like health care reform legislation. The massive Wikileaks release of classified information about U.S. activity in Afghanistan is huge and unwieldy. But the cache of documents — about 75,000 reports — is more than 30 times the size of the health care legislation, give or ...
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Pawlenty attacks deadlines for Afghan pullout
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty acted every bit the part of a GOP presidential candidate Monday during a visit to Washington, outlining his views on the war in Afghanistan, health care, the economy and the state of the Republican Party. The Obama administration "needs to do a better job of explaining ...
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Maryland Could Save $829M under Health Care Reform
Maryland could save about $829 million on health care costs between fiscal year 2011 and 2020 because of federal health care reform, according to a model the state released Monday.
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100 Days to Decide: Republicans Bank on Anti-Dem Strategy, Platform Unclear
One year after anger over a proposed health care overhaul lit a fire at town halls and ignited the Tea Party movement, the stage is set for Republicans to rally against the Democrats' agenda. But it remains unclear whether an anti-Democratic agenda is more effective than a pro-GOP platform in 2010.
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Some Insurers Stop Writing New Coverage for Kids
Some major health insurance companies have stopped issuing certain types of policies for children, an unintended consequence of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, state officials said Friday.
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Health care choices fall to states
State officials have significant power over how the federal legislation will be implemented.
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ANALYSIS: Obama got work done, but at what cost?
ANALYSIS: Far-reaching legislation aimed at reining in Wall Street marks the latest and likely the last major achievement by President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress, an 18-month partnership that strove simultaneously to fix a battered economy and enact sweeping changes in health care, education and financial regulation. Whatever the longer ...
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Abortion returns to campaign forefront
An Obama administration effort to rein in states treading toward using new health care laws to fund abortions - and provide political cover for pro-life Democrats - reignited a politically explosive issue that Republicans and pro-life activists are eager to exploit in the lead-up to the fall midterm elections. Seizing ...
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Politics Scene
SUPREME COURT Kagan would weigh recusal case-by-case Responding to a final GOP challenge, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said Monday that she would weigh recusing herself from matters related to the new health care law on a case-by-case basis. Ms. Kagan was responding to a list of questions from Senate ...
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Kagan would weigh health-law recusal case by case
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Responding to a final GOP challenge, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said Monday that she would weigh recusing herself from matters related to the new health care law on a case-by-case basis. Miss Kagan was responding to a list of questions from Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans about ...
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Kagan Says She Has Never Been Asked and Has Never Offered Her Opinion on Legality or Constitutionality of Any Proposed Health Care Bill
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said in written responses provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee today that she has never been asked--and has never offered--her opinion about the underlying legal or constitutional issues of any proposed health-care legislation.
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Pence: States Using Federal Funds for Abortions Through Health Care Law ‘Must Not Stand’
At his weekly pen and pad briefing on Monday at the Capital, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Republican Conference, said that last week's revelation by the National Right to Life's legal counsel that the new health care law will allow some states to use federal funds for abortion is unacceptable.
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Medicare is Making Health Care ‘Unsustainable,’ Former White House Budget Official Warns
Medicare is the train engine pulling the nation's health-care system off a cliff at "an accelerated and dangerous rate," suggests a new conservative think-tank study authored by a former White House budget official.
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