Healthcare Reform - Health Insurance Reform

Will The Health Law Ease Job Lock?

Thursday, 09 May 2013 08:31

The Wall Street Journal writes how the health law's coverage expansions could provide entrepreneurs with a new source for health coverage.

The Wall Street Journal: Will Health Care Law Beget Entrepreneurs?
Thousands of would-be entrepreneurs are itching to start their own businesses, but many are shackled to their current employer by health care...

Viewpoints: A Nurse Finds Getting Coordinated Care For Her Husband Challenging; Iowa Legislator Outlines Problems With Medicaid; Researcher's Quest To Save Experiments After Sandy

Thursday, 09 May 2013 08:30

Los Angeles Times: After Hospital Care, The Test Begins
In 2011, my husband, Eric, a trial attorney, was felled by a brain stem stroke just before he was to board a flight at O'Hare in Chicago. He was just 53 years old with no prior health conditions or problems. From the outset, we knew his recovery and rehabilitation would be long and...

For Obama, Health Law's Implementation Is Central To His Legacy

Thursday, 09 May 2013 08:30

Bloomberg reports that shortly after President Barack Obama's re-election, he told senior staff members that the health law would be one of his second term's highest priorities. In related news, health care will be a focus for Obama this week, and it was a hot topic at a recent dinner between the president and House Democrats.

Bloomberg: Obama...

Cantor Schedules (Yet Another) Health Law Repeal Vote

Thursday, 09 May 2013 08:29

The vote, which is likely to take place next week, will be the first one in 2013. There have been more than 30 votes to repeal all or parts of the health overhaul since its passage in 2010.

The Washington Post: House To Vote Again On Repealing 'Obamacare' Next Week
Cantor's decision to schedule the vote comes as he’s devoted most of the...

Longer Looks: A Wife's Alzheimer's, Obamacare and Workers' Hours, Doctors and Drug Companies

Thursday, 09 May 2013 08:28

Every week reporter Ankita Rao selects interesting reading from around the Web.

Los Angeles Times: A Wife's Alzheimer's, A Husband's Obsession
When his wife got Alzheimer's disease, lawyer Ken Chiate invested all his hopes in an unorthodox treatment. Nothing, it seems, could make him give up on it. ... Jeannette's difficulties seemed to emerge out...

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