From Mother Jones: By several measures, the court headed by Chief Justice John Roberts is the most conservative since the early 1970s, when Richard Nixon named Warren Burger to replace the famously liberal Earl Warren. Not only is its most conservative member (Clarence Thomas) nearly as conservative as the Burger…
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From The Nation: Thor Haugen, who is 23, has an advantage that his older sister did not: he can stay on the family insurance plan while he finds his footing on the farm. Some 2.5 million young Americans have recently gained coverage this way, thanks to the Affordable Care Act.…
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From TPM: Appellate Court Judge Jerry Smith, presiding over a three-judge panel hearing a separate challenge to the health care law, lit into an Obama administration attorney. “Does the Department of Justice recognize that federal courts have the authority in appropriate circumstances to strike federal statutes because of one or…
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From NPR: As the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments over President Obama’s health care overhaul this week, we take a look at the questions at stake each day. Monday: Can the courts even rule on the constitutionality of the law right now? Tuesday: Can the government force you…
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From ThinkProgress: [A] broad coalition of religious organizations filed an amicus brief supporting the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion that should give the lie to any claim that the faith community opposes the ACA. The brief includes a number of major religious denominations, including the policy arm of the United…
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In the first full year since President Obama’s health care reform law took effect, the cost of prescription drugs to those on Medicare fell $2.1 billion in 2011. From the Columbus Dispatch: In the first full year of the new health-care law, 3.6 million people in the government Medicare program…
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Why We Needed Health Care Reform [Source: Center for American Progress] (7)
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From ThinkProgress: At least 2.5 million younger Americans now have health insurance as a result of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that allows adults to stay on their parents’ health care plans until 26 years of age, the Associated Press reports. The Obama administration is expected to release…
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