Health Care
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POLL: Should the Supreme Court uphold or strike down Obama’s health care law?
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday about whether it’s constitutional for the government to require that all Americans buy health insurance. Tell us what you think: Should Obama’s health care law be upheld or thrown out?
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WATCH live Politico coverage of Supreme Court health care case
Politico is covering the historic Supreme Court arguments on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Watch all the coverage live here.
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Supreme Court considers Obama health care overhaul
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The Supreme Court plunged into a three-day debate on the Obama administration's overhaul of the nation's health care system Monday.
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Md. House, Senate pass health exchange bill
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The Maryland General Assembly has passed a measure to create a framework for a health insurance marketplace to provide coverage to the uninsured.
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Supreme Court to address Obama health care overhaul
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Monday, the nine justices will hear arguments on the crux of the legal challenge that focuses on the requirement that most Americans buy health insurance, or face fines if they do not.
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Demonstrators protest health care law at DHHS
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Demonstrators say the Catholic Church doesn’t believe in birth control pills, and to make them provide them to anybody that works for them is a crime.
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More Americans going to ER for dental maintenance, research shows
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More Americans are turning to the emergency room for routine dental problems — a choice that often costs 10 times more than preventive care and offers far fewer treatment options than a dentist's office, according to an analysis of government data and dental research.
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Birth control debate: Should employers be compelled to provide it? (Poll)
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The debate over whether employers should be compelled to include birth control as part of their employee's health care has reached a fever pitch. Should it be required? Take our poll.
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House votes to repeal part of 2010 health care law
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The Republican-led House on Wednesday voted to repeal a financially troubled part of the 2010 health care law that was designed to provide affordable long-term care insurance.
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Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas asked to sit out health care case
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Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congress say it's Justice Clarence Thomas who should sit it out.
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Justices unlikely to have last word on health care
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The weight of a Supreme Court decision isn't likely to settle the contentious debate over health care in America.
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Obama's health care proposal heads to Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments next March over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul — a case that could shake the political landscape.
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Nurses join Occupy movement with DC demonstration
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Thousands of nurses demonstrated in D.C. Thursday as part of the Occupy movement, saying they see first-hand the impacts of a slow economy as their patients struggle to pay their bills.
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Health overhaul law suffers first major casualty
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The Obama administration's signature health overhaul law, under relentless assault by Republicans, has suffered its first major casualty - a long-term care insurance plan.
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Major piece of health care overhaul flawed, administration says
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The Obama administration says it is unable to go forward with a major program in the president's signature health care overhaul law - a new long-term care insurance plan.
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John McCain open to Obama's changes in military health
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Sen. John McCain is recommending that a special committee searching for ways to slash the deficit consider some of President Barack Obama's proposed changes to health and retirement benefits for the military.
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Fight over health care law heads to Supreme Court
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An appeals court struck down a key provision in the Obama administration's health care overhaul, and now the administration is fighting back, taking their appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Appeals court hears challenge to health care law
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A conservative-leaning panel of federal appellate judges raised concerns about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul Friday, but suggested the challenge to it may be premature.
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