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Romney spokesperson: His individual mandate could have saved woman’s life
A spokesperson for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday shocked conservatives by suggesting that a woman whose husband was laid off from a Bain Capital-owned plant would have lived if she had been covered by a health care law similar to President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. During…
HHS includes trans people in health care rule that bans sex discrimination
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) clarified recently that the much-touted rule that says health insurance companies can not discriminate based on sex also extends to trans people. “This anti-discrimination law, enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act, creates an important new tool to combat anti-LGBT and…
Perry: Medicaid expansion is like ‘adding 1,000 people to the Titanic’
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Monday said that his state would refuse to implement President Barack Obama’s health care reform law because it was “like adding 1,000 people to the Titanic.” In a statement released on Monday, Perry said that he would not set up state health care exchanges…
Romney suddenly decides health mandates are a ‘tax’
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday reversed his campaign’s position that mandates to buy health care are a “penalty” and not a “tax,” telling CBS News that “the majority of the [Supreme Court] has said it is a tax, and therefore it is a tax.” “They have spoken,”…
Pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline forced to pay record $3 billion fraud settlement
GlaxoSmithKline was socked with $3 billion in fines by US authorities Monday over charges it marketed drugs for unauthorized uses, held back safety data, and cheated the government’s Medicaid program. The Justice Department said GSK was fined over misbranding its drugs Paxil and Wellbutrin, and for holding back data while…
Secretary Clinton announces $75 million public-private partnership for maternal health
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday the United States would provide $75 million (60.5 million euros) to a private-public effort to improve the health of mothers and their babies in developing countries. Norway, the host of an international conference focusing on maternal health, said it would join the…
Missouri Legislature Passes Bill that Denies Women Access to Birth Control/Abortion Services Based on ‘Religious Conscience’ of Whomever
On Friday, the Missouri legislature passed a bill (SB 749) that attempts to supersede federal law and deny access to birth control for women based upon the religious or moral convictions of any health plan provider, healthcare institution, entity, employee, employer, or person. The bill contains a provision that is…
Kansas Bill Permits Doctors to Refuse to Administer Chemotherapy to Pregnant Cancer Patients
The Kansas Senate has approved anti-choice legislation that literally prioritizes a doctor’s personal beliefs over women — currently alive, breathing women — by permitting doctors and other healthcare providers to refuse medical care to a pregnant woman if such care might end her pregnancy. And here’s the kicker: the healthcare…
Republican bill would prohibit abortion coverage in multi-state health plans
Sixty House Republicans and one House Democrat have sponsored legislation that would block multi-state health plans from offering coverage for elective abortions. The Hill reported that the legislation, the Stop Abortion Funding in Multi-state Exchange Plans (SAFE) Act, would amend the new federal health care law to ensure that health…
Why Jeffrey Toobin is Wrong and Everyone Needs to Settle Down About the ACA Ruling
I listened to both days of testimony (here’s a chirpstory of my live-tweeting while listening to the arguments regarding the individual mandate) and have read the transcripts multiple times, and I agree entirely with The Atlantic‘s Topher Spiro: “This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. This law looks…
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