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Aug 02 2012

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Doctors Will Have To Figure Out Who Gets ‘No-Cost’ Birth Control

Aug 02 2012

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Restaurants and retailers face some of the toughest changes now that the Supreme Court has kept the overhaul in place. These industries historically are among the least likely to provide insurance to workers.

Aug 01 2012

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The law requires employers to begin including contraception and other women’s services in workers’ insurance plans without charging employees co-payments AND distribute millions of dollars in insurance-company refunds to workers whose plans spent a high percentage of their premium dollars on administrative expenses.

Aug 01 2012

NPR.org

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Beginning today, most new and renewing health insurance plans must begin offering a broad array of women’s preventive health services, most notably coverage of birth control, at no upfront cost.

Jul 27 2012

New York Times

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President Obama’s health care law is putting new strains on some of the nation’s most hard-pressed hospitals, by cutting aid they use to pay for emergency care for illegal immigrants, which they have long been required to provide.

Jul 25 2012

Fiscal Times

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CBO: Supreme Court Decision Lowers Obamacare Costs

Jul 24 2012

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Around one in 10 employers in the U.S. plans to drop health coverage for workers in the next few years as the bulk of the federal health-care law begins, and more indicated they may do so over time, according to a study to be released Tuesday by consulting company Deloitte.

Jul 23 2012

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

7 Ways the PPACA Hurts Safety Net Hospitals

Jul 19 2012

Politico

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Republicans on a House Appropriations subcommittee won passage of a spending bill that would defund the Affordable Care Act, eliminate a decades-old health research agency and slash the budget for other health programs.

Jul 17 2012

IBJ.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The immediate reaction on Wall Street to last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding President Obama’s health care law was to buy hospital stocks and dump health insurance stocks. But at least one analyst expects the long-term outcome to be exactly opposite of that.

Jul 16 2012

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Less Than 3% Seen Paying U.S. Health Law Penalty: BGOV Barometer

Jul 13 2012

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Ten Things You Didn’t Know Were In The Affordable Care Act

Jul 13 2012

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

While the resistance of Republican governors has dominated the debate over the health-care law following last month’s Supreme Court decision to uphold it, a number of Democratic governors are also quietly voicing concerns about a key provision to expand coverage.

Jul 11 2012

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Obama administration says low-income residents in states that decide to opt out of a big Medicaid expansion in the new health care law will not risk federal penalties as an unintended consequence.

Jul 10 2012

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas told federal officials on Monday that the state had no intention of expanding Medicaid or establishing a health insurance exchange

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