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Checks to seniors with high prescription drug bills will go out ahead of scheduleThe Obama administration says checks to help seniors with high drug costs will go out starting June 10, ahead of schedule.The $250 checks for Medicare recipients who fall into ...
Under health-care overhaul legislation, failure to buy the mandated insurance coverage means penalties, and now we have an official estimate of how many people might be affected. The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that about 4 million people will get dinged in ...
After filing my column on the health care bill last week, I swore I was done writing on the issue for a while. I could not resist wondering whether the millennials who adopted Obama as their own will see this as a ...
EDITOR'S NOTE An occasional look at how influence is exercised in Washington.By ALAN FRAM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Notice you're not bombarded anymore by TV ads about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul plan?Drugmakers, business organizations and other interest groups in ...
Americans support public health plan _ depending on how you askMore Americans support creation of a new government-run health insurance plan to compete with the private insurance market, a new Associated Press poll finds, but the level of enthusiasm depends on how ...
EDITOR'S NOTE An occasional look at how influence is exercised in Washington.By ALAN FRAMAssociated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) One operative tried to enlist trade groups in Maine to oppose government-run health coverage. Several industry officials disavowed any knowledge of the group and said ...
The White House and top Democrats, intensifying their push to build support for their party's health overhaul proposals, are increasingly targeting women, a politically crucial group with strong opinions on health care that polls suggest has yet to be sold on the ...
Under a new bill introduced Wednesday, all Americans would have to buy health care insurance or pay a fine, and insurance companies would be forbidden to charge higher premiums to people with serious health problems.. There don't appear to be any Republican ...
AP answers your questions on the news, from lawmakers' health benefits to Hawaii's monarchyMillions of Americans could be affected by the health care overhaul that's being hashed out in Congress. A column where AP journalists respond to readers' questions about the news.If ...
Most people don't have much say over which health insurance plan they get, and the big health care bills introduced in Congress this year wouldn't do much to change that, columnist David Leonhardt argues in this morning's New York Times.. And while ...
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