Of all of the winners in health reform, women are some of the biggest. And today’s a perfect example of why. Starting today under the Affordable Care Act – ahem, ObamaCare — new private health plans must cover the guidelines on women’s preventive services with no cost sharing (co-pays) in plan years starting on or [...]
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ObamaCare Loves Women: Reactions
By Zandra Rice Hawkins on August 2, 2012 in
Tags: ACA, activism, Affordable Care Act, Benefits, birth control, Contraception, Domestic Violence Screenings, Gestational Diabetes Screening, granite state progress, GSP, GSPEF, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Man on the Street, New Hanpshire, NH, Obamacare, ObamaCare Loves Women, Peventive Care, Portsmouth, Preventative Care, Protect Your Care, STI Screening, Street Interviews, Well Woman Visits, women's health
HB 1560: The Dubious Plan to Kill Health Care Reform
Opponents of federal health care reform have seized upon a novel end-run around the law, an interstate Health Care Compact that would replace all federal health care programs — including Medicare and Medicaid — with block grants to the states. The history of compacts goes back to the colonial period, and more than 200 are [...]
Breaking News — The Civil War is Over
By Katemck on September 28, 2011 in
Tags: federal courts, Health Care Reform, Supreme Court, Virginia
by Linda Greenhouse (Opinionator): Judicial opinions on the constitutionality of the new health care law are pouring out of the federal courts. With the general expectation that the Supreme Court will have to resolve what is now a clear conflict between two federal courts of appeals, the individual lower-court decisions have pretty much ceased to [...]
Sixth Circuit Supports Health Care Reform Law
For the first time a Republican dominated panel supported the individual mandate. A three judge panel made up of two Republican nominees, Judges James L. Graham and Jeffery Sutton–one appointed by Ronald Reagan and the other by George W. Bush–upheld the individual mandate. The opinion was written by Judge Boyce Martin, who was appointed by [...]
Republican Judge Upholds Health Care Reform
The Hill reports that the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the Affordable Care Act, specifically the individual mandate, is constitutional. The big surprise here is that Judge Jeffery Sutton, a Bush appointee who clerked for Antonin Scalia, ruled in favor of the mandate. Sutton is the first Republican appointee to rule in [...]
Fired For Not Breaking The Law?
This is a complicated story (and back-story), but simple in its core, so let’s try bullet points: * Federal health care reform becomes law, requiring states to set up a health insurance exchange. * State employee, whose job it is to find the most appropriate firm to set that up, creates a proposal system so [...]
House Lessons
By Dean Barker on June 16, 2011 in
Tags: Bill o"Brien, Health Care Reform, John Lynch, parental notification, pensions, rail authority, separation of powers
Today, House Speaker Bill O’Brien, Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt, and the majority of the House GOP supermajority were given five lessons in government. They are:1. Take a civics course. From the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s opinion on HB89 (.pdf, pp.9-10): It is the executive, not the legislative branch, in which the constitution vests the “supreme [...]
Federal Judge: Health Care Reform Constitutional
A federal judge in Washington, DC, ruled that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Judge Gladys Kessler handed down a 64 page ruling that dismissed conservative claims that the act of not purchasing health insurance is not something that is not regulated under the Commerce Clause saying It is pure semantics to argue that an [...]
UNH Poll Misleading on Support in NH for Healthcare Reform
Polling data from around mid-January 2011 from CBS (AP-GfK Poll) contrasts sharply with the University of New Hampshire Survey Center Poll released on February 10. The most striking difference is the response to the question, Should the reform be repealed. The UNH poll asks the question, Do you think Congress should try to repeal the [...]
Health Care Reform: NHGOP Cutting off NH’s Nose to Spite Our Face
We have seen from the vote to force the AG to join the lawsuit against health care reform to the short sighted pending refusal of the Executive Council to accept federal funds to set up a health insurance exchange, that New Hampshire stands to totally miss the boat on health care reform. This spells disaster [...]
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