By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
By a strict party line vote of 51-47, the U.S. Senate voted against repeal of the Patient's Protection and Affordable Care Act, setting the stage for new battles to come as conservatives set their sights on blocking funding for implementation of the unpopular measure.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A federal judge in Florida has struck down the entire health care reform law after ruling that the individual mandate, upon which the law depends, is unconstitutional.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Lawmakers are calling for a congressional investigation of the granting of waivers by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to companies who do not want to comply with ObamaCare's ban on annual coverage limits, some of which were unions who contributed heavily to Obama's election campaign.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A federal judge has ruled that a couple from Central Pennsylvania have sufficient standing to challenge the controversial individual healthcare mandate in ObamaCare, making them the first individuals in the U.S. to be able to do so.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who is known to be an expert on the Senate's most arcane rules, has already begun a legislative process that will bring the House-passed repeal of ObamaCare to a vote where many nervous Democrats up for re-election in 2012 will be forced to make their position known on the vastly unpopular bill.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Now that the newly elected members of the U.S. House have voted to repeal ObamaCare, lawmakers will now focus on fulfilling the second part of their "repeal and replace" pledge.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
As the vote to repeal the vastly unpopular health care reform law gets underway in the House today, the U.S. Bishops have sent a letter to all members of Congress saying they do not intend to join efforts to either support or oppose repeal of ObamaCare, but will "devote our efforts to correcting serious moral problems in the current law."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Only three days after going into effect, a controversial Medicare regulation that would have effectively reinstated the controversial "death panel" provision in ObamaCare, has been scrapped by the Administration.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Incoming House Republicans have announced that they will take up a vote to repeal ObamaCare next Wednesday, and will then turn their sights on legislation that will strip the unpopular health care reform bill of all taxpayer funding of abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
While Americans were busy celebrating Christmas, President Obama's controversial head of Medicare and staunch supporter of rationed health care, Dr. Donald Berwick, quietly created a new Medicare rule that will reward physicians for conducting end-of-life counseling sessions with their patients.
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