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Posts Tagged Health Care Reform

Bill would allow employers to avoid covering anything they object to

By | 03.01.12 | 5:20 am

The United States Senate today will vote on the Blunt Amendment, which makes the whole contraceptives controversy look like Sunday school.

Coloradans starting to see benefit of Health Care Reform

By | 02.15.12 | 1:16 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the Affordable Care Act provided approximately 973,000 Colorado residents with at least one new free preventive service in 2011 through their private health insurance plans.

Americans unsure what health care reform means

By | 12.28.11 | 5:48 am

President Barack Obama (Pic by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O’Brien, via Wikimedia Commons)

According to new polling, the majority of Americans do not have definite positions on a health care reform provision requiring everyone to have health insurance. The individual mandate, which is the main subject of Florida’s legal challenge to the law, is one of the measure’s more controversial sections.

Catholics pressure Obama on contraception coverage

By | 11.24.11 | 5:45 am

With the final decision on whether the Obama administration will keep its original policy requiring health insurers to cover contraception without co-payments looming, women’s health advocates fear the president will capitulate to the demands of one of the biggest opponents to the policy: Catholic bishops.

Gardner, Lamborn, Coffman support litigation against Affordable Care Act

By | 10.31.11 | 9:04 am

Colorado U.S. Reps. Cory Gardner, Doug Lamborn and Mike Coffman lent their names to a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday arguing that the Supreme Court should rule the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional.

Affordable Care Act popular with Latino voters

By | 10.16.11 | 5:05 am

Latino voters support the Affordable Health Care Act, but do not support the mandate to purchase coverage, according to a poll released late last week..

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann campaigning in Jacksonville Beach (Pic by Virginia Chamlee)

VIDEO: Bachmann touts far-right candidacy: ‘Why settle for a moderate?’

By | 09.28.11 | 5:54 am

As her hopes sink lower by the day, Michele Bachmann goes on The O’Reilly Factor to stake her claim that a “true conservative” can win it all.

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VIDEO: Progressive group challenges GOP to stand up for life

By | 09.26.11 | 7:04 am

A progressive health care advocacy group has released a new ad that questions the reaction of tea party members at a Florida presidential debate and wonders if the 2012 candidates will take a stand against such extremes.

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Study shows that all suffer in communities where there are lots of uninsured people

By | 09.25.11 | 5:26 am

A new study shows that a community that has a high rate of uninsured members affects the health care access and quality of those who actually have insurance.

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Bachmann concludes Florida swing by vowing to repeal health reform

By | 08.28.11 | 5:18 pm

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann concluded a weekend of Florida events with a Sarasota rally cosponsored by the local Republican Party and a handful of tea party and 912 groups, repeating her calls to eliminate both the EPA and the Department of Education and promising to lead the charge to repeal “ObamaCare.”