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Thursday, October 3, 2013 |
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Hawaii Health Connector Claims 1,181 Obamacare Applications
By News Release @ 3:42 AM :: 4819 Views :: Health Care
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The Connector logged 19,457 unique visits to the site, completed 1,181 applications, and received 1,257 calls connected at the contact center on the first day....
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013 |
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Shutdown: HRP Chairman Calls for Senate to Act
By David S Chang @ 7:44 PM :: 6636 Views :: National News, Health Care, Republican Party
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The House has continually been reaching out to the Senate Democrats and President Obama to pass a resolution to ensure everyone receives equal treatment....
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013 |
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The Story Behind the Government Shutdown
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:18 PM :: 5438 Views :: National News, Health Care
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Government funding isn’t the issue. It’s Obamacare....
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Monday, September 30, 2013 |
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Will Congress Stop Obamacare?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:13 PM :: 5210 Views :: Health Care
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Over the weekend, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to delay the unpopular law’s implementation by one year....
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Friday, September 27, 2013 |
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5 Ways Obamacare Could Impact You in 5 Days
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:40 AM :: 3737 Views :: Health Care
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Today, Senators face a choice on the fate of Obamacare....
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Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
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DCCA Report: Obamacare Will Add 50% to Cost of Hawaii Health Insurance by 2014
By Selected News Articles @ 9:31 PM :: 6110 Views :: Health Care
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The Oliver Wyman consultants expect individual premiums to average $346 in Hawaii in 2014, up from an average of $231 today....
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013 |
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Sen. Ted Cruz: Standing Against Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:36 PM :: 4077 Views :: Health Care
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Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants to use procedural tricks to strip the House-passed bill of the provision that would defund Obamacare....
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013 |
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Hawaii insurance firms launch campaign to counter misperceptions about Obamacare
By Malia Zimmerman @ 12:10 PM :: 4360 Views :: Health Care
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Hawaii’s small business owners with 50 or fewer employees with existing health insurance coverage don’t need to make any changes when the Hawaii Health Connector launches Tuesday....
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013 |
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Hawaii GOP Takes on Obamacare: "Make DC Listen"
By News Release @ 1:11 AM :: 4400 Views :: Health Care
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"...stand with patriots like Senator Ted Cruz, who stood today with Senators Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Marco Rubio, on the floor of the US Senate for every American who will be affected by ObamaCare...."
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
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UH Med School Releases Hawaiian-Pacific Health Study
By News Release @ 8:16 PM :: 4867 Views :: Health Care
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“Assessment & Priorities for Health and Well-Being of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Peoples.”
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
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This Fight Is for You
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:00 PM :: 4521 Views :: Health Care
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The Heritage Foundation has been talking about defunding Obamacare for some time now, and people may be wondering why....
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Saturday, September 21, 2013 |
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Sex, drugs and Obamacare: Questions get personal, with no privacy guarantee
By Selected News Articles @ 9:50 PM :: 5033 Views :: Health Care
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patients will be asked to disclose more personal information to their doctors — including how often they have sex and how with how many sexual partners....
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Friday, September 20, 2013 |
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Obamacare Plans: Four Things the Health Connector Isn’t Telling You
By Andrew Walden @ 10:07 PM :: 6619 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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- Deductibles
- Family rates
- Smokers' rates
- What's not covered
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Friday, September 20, 2013 |
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Hawaii Scores 'C' for Jail Diversion of Mentally Ill
By News Release @ 2:29 PM :: 9601 Views :: Health Care, Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment
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Fewer than half the U.S. population lives in communities where the most basic methods of diverting people with severe mental illness from the criminal justice system are being used....
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Friday, September 20, 2013 |
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The Obamacare Scams Are Already Starting
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:50 PM :: 3748 Views :: Health Care
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there are already numerous reports of scam artists posing as Navigators and Assisters to take advantage of people’s confusion about ObamaCare....
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Friday, September 20, 2013 |
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Navy Yard Shooting: Failure of Mental Health Care System
By Selected News Articles @ 1:25 PM :: 9328 Views :: Health Care, Homelessness, Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment
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Approximately half of mass shootings are caused by individuals with untreated severe mental illness....
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Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
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NCQA: Kaiser Hawaii Ranks 25th in Nation
By News Release @ 10:00 PM :: 5539 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...the number one health plan in the state and among the top 25 health plans in the nation, according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance....
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Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
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HI makes progress on ACA, but one lawmaker isn’t celebrating
By Malia Zimmerman @ 8:27 PM :: 4117 Views :: Health Care
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“As now confirmed by proponents, the ultimate goal is government, single payer health coverage...."
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Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
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Obamacare Anti-Conscience Mandate Loses in Another Court
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:04 PM :: 4634 Views :: First Amendment, Health Care
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This week, yet another district court halted the Obama Administration from forcing its anti-conscience mandate to provide coverage for abortifacients....
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 |
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It’s Time to Defund Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:21 PM :: 3896 Views :: Health Care
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Let’s face it: Obamacare was a mistake. It’s time for Washington to acknowledge the problem and defund Obamacare....
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
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Monday, September 16, 2013 |
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Monday, September 16, 2013 |
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Will Unions Want to Repeal Obamacare?
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:23 PM :: 4859 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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In a typical Friday afternoon “news dump,” the Treasury Department announced it could not grant unions’ request for another special Obamacare break....
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Friday, September 13, 2013 |
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Friday, September 13, 2013 |
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A Real Vote to Defund Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:49 PM :: 3776 Views :: Health Care
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Congress can vote on something and that vote won’t mean a thing....
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Friday, September 13, 2013 |
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AFL-CIO: Obamacare Fundamentally Unfair to Union Workers
By News Release @ 12:45 AM :: 9074 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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...without changes to the way the ACA is implemented, there are likely to be "unintended consequences" that will hurt workers' health care coverage....
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Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
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HMSA 'Dumping' Thousands of Policies, Blames Obamacare
By Andrew Walden @ 8:07 PM :: 10269 Views :: Health Care
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"The Affordable Care Act...is bringing many changes.... Your plan is among those that won’t meet ACA requirements."
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Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
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Why This Doctor Fears Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:59 AM :: 3648 Views :: Health Care
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Unfortunately, everything Dr. Shepherd loves about his job is now at risk....
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Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
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Oversight of Home-Community Based Services Working Group to Meet
By News Release @ 12:30 AM :: 4283 Views :: Health Care
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DATE: Monday, September 30, 2013
TIME: 1:30 pm
PLACE: Conference Room 329, State Capitol
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Monday, September 9, 2013 |
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When Obamacare 'Navigators' Ask If You're Qualified, You Should Ask Them About Identity Theft
By Selected News Articles @ 7:40 PM :: 4302 Views :: Health Care
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Starting October 1, armies of “Navigators” will begin asking Americans very personal questions....
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Monday, September 9, 2013 |
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10 Ways Obamacare Isn’t Working
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:12 AM :: 3804 Views :: Health Care
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...the Administration keeps trying to “fix” it—to no avail. It has delayed parts of the law, ignored others, and carved out exemptions for its political allies....
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Friday, September 6, 2013 |
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HHSC: We Can Only Guess at the Cost of Procedures
By Selected News Articles @ 4:30 AM :: 4851 Views :: Health Care
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...they face both dwindling reimbursements and payments increasingly tied to outcomes....
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
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Planned Parenthood Uses Tax Dollars From Obamacare to Push Sex Ed on Hawaii Kids
By Selected News Articles @ 8:59 PM :: 9128 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care, Higher Education
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The Hawaii Youth Services Network and the University of Hawaii received almost two million dollars from ... Obamacare—to develop, replicate, and implement “comprehensive sex education” in Hawaii schools....
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
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IRS Finalizes Penalty for ObamaCare Mandate
By NCPA @ 12:57 PM :: 3787 Views :: Health Care
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The regulation from the IRS formally codifies the fine charged to people without insurance....
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013 |
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State Paying Xerox $54M to Check Obamacare EHR Fraud
By News Release @ 2:46 PM :: 4377 Views :: Health Care
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Providers apply for the incentives using a secure, web-based tool from Xerox to show that they have implemented and used EHRs under federal guidelines....
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013 |
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Countdown to Obamacare Exchanges
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:35 PM :: 3492 Views :: Health Care
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In just 27 days, the Obamacare exchanges are scheduled to open....
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Monday, September 2, 2013 |
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FULL TEXT: ILWU Quits AFL-CIO Over Obamacare, Union Raids
By News Release @ 12:40 PM :: 6792 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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IRONY: The ILWU is quitting AFL-CIO in part due to the signature achievement of a President whose teenage political lessons were learned from Frank Marshall Davis, formerly a columnist at the ILWU-owned Honolulu Record, which was printed back in the days when the ILWU was "too red" to be in the AFL-CIO....
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Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
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Need a Job? State Will Hire You to Sell Obamacare
By News Release @ 9:17 PM :: 4307 Views :: Health Care
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If hired, feel free to send Hawai'i Free Press stories about your adventures as a state-funded insurance salesperson....
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
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Obamacare Quiz for Employers
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:51 AM :: 5530 Views :: Economy, Health Care
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“Obamacare will impose new health coverage costs, the employer mandate, compliance regulations, and new taxes on all businesses.”
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Monday, August 26, 2013 |
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Should We Delay or Defund Obamacare?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:34 PM :: 3284 Views :: Health Care
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Obamacare is devastating policy for America....
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Thursday, August 22, 2013 |
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When You Can’t Actually Keep Your Health Care Plan
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:27 PM :: 4237 Views :: Health Care
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UPS yesterday announced it is dropping coverage for spouses of employees....
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Thursday, August 22, 2013 |
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Study: Obesity Soaring in State, but Hawaii Ranks 47th
By News Release @ 1:41 AM :: 5255 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...adult obesity in Hawaii has increased nearly three times from that it was a little over 20 years ago. In the past year alone, obesity has risen more than seven percent....
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
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Publicly Funded Ads Promote Purchase of HMSA, Kaiser Policies
By News Release @ 3:06 PM :: 4043 Views :: Health Care
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Open enrollment for Hawai‘i residents is October of this year....
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
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An Awesome Superhero Video About… Obamacare?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:50 PM :: 3803 Views :: Health Care
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Would “an awesome superhero or action-movie style video” change your mind about Obamacare?
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Monday, August 19, 2013 |
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Top 2 Myths About Defunding Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:07 PM :: 3448 Views :: Health Care
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Congress defunds mandatory spending on appropriations bills every year....
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Saturday, August 17, 2013 |
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Friday, August 16, 2013 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation, Staff Illegally Exempted from Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:26 PM :: 4975 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Health Care
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“If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?”
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Thursday, August 15, 2013 |
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New Poll Shows Support for Defunding Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:57 PM :: 3541 Views :: Health Care
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57 percent—support defunding this unfair, unaffordable, unworkable law....
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
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Is ObamaCare Paving the Way for a Single-Payer System?
By NCPA @ 1:34 PM :: 3514 Views :: Health Care
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ObamaCare's new insurance exchanges and expansion of Medicaid represent the building blocks....
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Monday, August 12, 2013 |
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Defiance
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:31 PM :: 3565 Views :: Health Care
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...the case for defunding Obamacare....
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