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Health insurer WellPoint buys Amerigroup for $4.9 billion
US health insurer WellPoint is buying Amerigroup, a manager of publicly funded health programs, for about $4.9 billion, the companies said Monday. The acquisition will position the companies for future growth as they prepare for the launch of insurance exchanges, they said. The deal comes on the heels of the…
Maine Gov. LePage: IRS ‘the new Gestapo’ because of Obamacare
Maine’s Republican governor, Paul LePage, compared the Internal Revenue Service to Nazi Germany’s secret police force during a weekly radio address on Saturday. The governor was criticizing President Obama’s health care reform law, which requires most individuals in the United States to obtain health insurance coverage or pay a penalty.…
Paul Ryan: Repeal health law because rights come from God
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is arguing that President Barack Obama’s health care reform law should be repealed because rights come from “nature and God,” not the government. During an interview on ABC, former Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy’s widow, Victoria Kennedy, told host George Stephanopoulos that the Supreme Court had made…
Obama thrown by false reports on health decision
WASHINGTON — For a few puzzling moments Thursday, US President Barack Obama believed inaccurate media reports that his proudest political achievement — health care reform — had been shot down. Obama was standing in the outer Oval Office watching a split screen of four cable news channels when reports flashed…
Rand Paul: Court declaring health law constitutional ‘doesn’t make it so’
Tea party-backed Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) isn’t willing to give the United States Supreme Court the final say on whether or not President Barack Obama’s health care reform law is constitutional. In a statement posted to his website on Thursday after the court declared the that law did not violate…
Obama: Health care reform is ‘good for the American people’
Reacting to the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding virtually all of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama hailed the ruling and explained some of the key portions of the law in a manner that most Americans simply haven’t heard yet. Specifically, the president kept it simple and short, telling Americans…
WATCH LIVE: Romney reacts after court upholds health care mandate
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney reacts after the U.S. Supreme Court declares President Barack Obama’s health care reform law is constitutional. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast June 28, 2012. …
WATCH LIVE: Boehner reacts to health care ruling
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reacts after the U.S. Supreme Court declares President Barack Obama’s health care reform law is constitutional. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast June 28, 2012. Photo: Flickr / Gage Skidmore…
Rove: Health care ruling is a ‘boost’ for Obama
Republican strategist Karl Rove appeared devastated on Thursday as he was forced to declared that the Supreme Court had given President Barack Obama a “boost” when they refused to strike down his health care reform law. “It would be an extraordinary step,” Rove, appearing to be partially in denial, told…
Boehner vows to repeal ‘Obamacare’ if it survives court challenge
Republican House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday vowed to repeal all of the Affordable Care Act if the U.S. Supreme Court did not strike down the health care reform law. “Now we all know the Supreme Court is likely to make some announcement about ObamaCare tomorrow,” he said. “We made…
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