Some States Flummoxed By Health Law’s Promise Of Affordable Care

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

News outlets report on a variety of health law implementation issues, including an Associated Press report detailing how the overhaul is lagging in the states. Other reports examine questions about ACOs, essential benefits and other specific provisions. Health Overhaul Lags In States Here's a reality check for President Barack ...

Perry Takes On Romney’s Massachusetts Health Reforms

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry criticized the Massachusetts health overhaul that became law while fellow candidate Mitt Romney was governor. Meanwhile, news outlets are fact-checking statements about related reform initiatives — such as Texas' tort reform law, and members of Congress appear to be taking a less-is-more approach to August town hall meetings. Perry's Critique Of Romney ...

Egypt : Mubarak may be in ill health

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak may  be in poor health, the country’s envoy to Washington told a US broadcaster  Monday, days after the longtime leader was ousted by a people power revolution. In some of ...

How Scott Brown Could Affect the Nation’s Health Care Policies

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Democratic Senators had been working diligently to sculpt a health bill that they thought would please enough of the nation to justify being passed. And even though it wasn't satisfactory to Republicans, it didn't matter because Democrats carried 60 seats - enough to overcome a Republican filibuster. That ...

How Is Obama’s State of the Union Address Going to Affect Health Insurance?

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Everyone who watched the State of the Union address on Wednesday were sitting on the edge of their seats waiting for President Barack Obama to discuss the ever-so-controversial health care bill - however, the wait was longer than we'd expected. The good news is that he did actually touch ...