Republicans Say HHS Growing To Implement ACA. The Hill (4/18, Baker) reports in its “Healthwatch” blog, “Republicans argued Tuesday that the Obama administration has hired droves of new bureaucrats to implement the administration’s healthcare reform law. The Joint Economic Committee, led by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), said Tuesday that the Health and Human Services Department
Read More...HHS To Transfer $500 Million To IRS To Implement ACA. The Hill (4/10, Baker) reports in its “Healthwatch” blog, “The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law.” While, “Republican lawmakers have tried to cut off funding to implement the healthcare law,” the Administration “has
Read More...Study Concludes ACA Will Increase Deficit $340 Billion In The Next Decade. The Washington Post (4/10, Montgomery) reports the Affordable Care Act, “long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by” Charles Blahous, a
Read More...Court Mulls Severability Concerns On Third Day Of Healthcare Reform Hearings. The Supreme Court’s third day of hearings on the Affordable Care Act generated a great deal of coverage, but as has been the case all week, the topic had to compete with other high-profile stories for air time. None of the three networks led
Read More...Supreme Court To Hear Arguments On Healthcare Reform Law Beginning Today. On the eve of the first day of arguments before the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law, print and television coverage continued to be heavy, with nearly three minutes of coverage on network newscasts. ABC World News (3/25, story 4,
Read More...Political Issues Swirl Around Healthcare Reform Debate. As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the healthcare reform law next week, media coverage is heating up, with print media and television reports focusing largely on the political battle. The New York Times (3/20, A13, Steinhauer, Pear, Subscription Publication) reports, “Republicans on Capitol Hill have
Read More...CBO: 20 Million Could Lose Employer-Based Health Insurance As A Result Of ACA. According to a CBO report released Thursday, as many as 20 million Americas could lose employer-based healthcare coverage as a result of President Obama’s healthcare reform law. The Hill (3/16, Pecquet) reports in its “Healthwatch” blog that the CBO says the figures
Read More...January 27, 2012 : The Obama administration on Friday told the Supreme Court that if the justices rule that the health reform law’s mandate is unconstitutional, they don’t need to get rid of the entire law. Only two provisions — those requiring insurers to accept everyone regardless of health status and to apply “community rates”
Read More...Assembly Passes Bills to Expand Healthcare Services California Healthline reports that the Assembly passed several bills designed to expand medical care and mental health services. Lawmakers approved a measure – AB 154, by Assembly member Jim Beall (D-San Jose) — that would require insurers to cover conditions, such as anxiety and depression. Opponents argue that the state’s
Read More...CBO: Healthcare Law To Cost Less, Cover Fewer People. The Hill (3/14, Pecquet) reports in its “Healthwatch” blog that a revised CBO estimate released Tuesday says the healthcare reform law coverage provisions “will cost less but cover fewer people than first thought.” The estimate “shows about 2 million fewer people gaining coverage by 2016, reducing
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