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Federal judge overturns Missouri law blocking Obamacare contraception mandate
A federal judge has struck down a Missouri law that was intended to allow employers to ignore a federal government mandate that required all businesses to provide contraception coverage in health insurance plans. In her ruling last week, U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig pointed out that federal law overrides state…
Increasing numbers of colleges cover health care for transgender students
Last week, the student newspaper the Brown Daily Herald reported that Brown University would be eliminating a discriminatory rider in its student health insurance plan that banned transgender-specific health care coverage. The plan will now cover up to $50,000 worth of treatment, including sex reassignment surgery, hormone therapies and other…
Study: Even wealthy Americans in worse health than western Europeans
Americans are in worse health, die earlier and suffer from more disease than residents of other wealthy nations, according to a new study out Wednesday. The disadvantage spans all ages from birth to 75, said the report, conducted jointly by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine. Some…
White House: Health law requires coverage for workers’ children
The Affordable Care Act will require employers to offer health insurance that covers their workers’ children too, the Obama administration announced on Monday. While the decision sounds like a win for working-class Americans, there’s a catch: The New York Times noted that the coverage is not required to be “affordable”…
American’s number one medical fear: Losing health care access
Access to healthcare and its cost remain Americans’ top medical concerns, two years after President Barack Obama’s reforms were passed, a poll said Wednesday. Forty-two percent of those questioned in the Gallup poll said access or cost were the biggest problems the country faces in terms of health care. Obama’s…
Study: Health reform saved consumers $1.5 billion in 2011
President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) saved American consumers $1.5 billion on out-of-pocket health insurance premium costs in 2011, a study published Wednesday (PDF) claimed. Despite this, benefits of the law were not applied equally across all health insurance markets, leading the study’s authors to propose that stronger rules…
Report: Cost of health insurance in U.S. rose 4 percent last year
The cost of health insurance in the United States rose only moderately over the past year, in part because of President Barack Obama’s health care reform, according to a report published Tuesday. The cost increase was four percent, higher than the 2.3 percent inflation rate, but considerably slower than in…
Inside the complex health care case
WASHINGTON — In deciding to uphold the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, the US Supreme Court had to decide on four issues: 1. Is the individual mandate a “tax” or a “penalty”? At the heart of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, dubbed “Obamacare” by critics,…
HCAN protests insurance giant WellPoint for supporting right-wing causes
The progressive group Health Care for America Now (HCAN) held a protest Wednesday morning to confront shareholders of the health insurance giant WellPoint about the company’s secret funding of extreme conservative politicians and groups. The meeting, which took place at Wellpoint’s corporate offices in Indianapolis, Indiana, featured shareholders voicing their…
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…
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