Next step, Florida: On Thursday, arguments will be offered in the lawsuit brought by 20 states that seeks to invalidate the law’s expansion of the Medicaid program.
Health News Florida/The News Service of Florida: Fla. Case Still Matters, McCollum Says Florida’s lawsuit against the new federal health care law isn’t any less important in light of a ruling Monday [...]
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20 State Legal Challenge to Health Law Begins Thursday
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Official Count of the Uninsured: 50.7 Million People
The number of people without health insurance rose 9.4% to 50.7 million people in 2009, the highest number of uninsured since 1987, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. That represented 16.7% of the U.S. population in 2009 compared with 15.4% in 2008.
Summary of Key Findings:
The number insured decreased from 255.1 million in 2008 to 253.6 million in 2009. Since [...]
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Congress Portrays Health Insurers as Villains…
Looks like congress wants to make the insurers “the villain” of the people. Seems to me that congress should simply look in the mirror to find the villain of the people…
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Changes That House Democrats Have Made to the Senate Health Care Bill
Some of the key changes that House Democrats made to the Senate health care bill Sources compiled by USAToday: Congressional Budget Office; House Rules Committee; Kaiser Family Foundation; the White House
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Senate bill
House change
Accessibility
Both bills aim to increase Americans’ access to health care coverage by expanding Medicaid, providing subsidies to middle-income families and imposing a host [...]
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