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Plans in the GOP to defund the healthcare bill if the Republicans win a majority in the House of Representatives.
Grouped Articles
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
In Rural Iowa, Spending, Not the Shutdown, Raises Worry
New York Times 10/04/2013
Why Democrats Are Dug in on Shutdown Impasse
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2013
Jim DeMint: We Won't Back Down on ObamaCare
Wall Street Journal 10/17/2013
Behind Debt Deal: Silence, Distrust and Hardball
Wall Street Journal 10/17/2013
The GOP Eyes Defunding Health Reform
BusinessWeek 09/30/2010
Grouped Articles
House Republicans Ready to Push Ahead on Health Plan Without a Price Tag
WSJ 03/08/2017
Millions Risk Losing Health Insurance in Republican Plan, Analysts Say
The New York Times 03/08/2017
Who Wins and Who Loses Under Republicans’ Health Care Plan
03/08/2017
GOP Health Plan Sparks Debate Over Obamacare Comparisons
WSJ 03/08/2017
GOP Health Plan Advances After Clearing Two House Committees
WSJ 03/09/2017
House Republicans Repeat an Obama Error
WSJ 03/09/2017
Grouped Articles
GOP Health Plan Risks Backlash From Seniors
WSJ 03/11/2017
G.O.P. Health Law Insures Fewer People, Nonpartisan Review Shows
The New York Times 03/13/2017
US health bill 'to leave 14m more uninsured' - BBC News
BBC News 03/13/2017
CBO Sees 24 Million More Uninsured, $337 Billion Deficit Cut in Coming Decade With GOP Health Plan
WSJ 03/13/2017
FBI Probe Could Hurt Donald Trump’s Clout in Congress
WSJ 03/21/2017
Health insurance woes helped elect Trump, but his cure may be more painful
The Guardian 03/21/2017
Grouped Articles
GOP Health Plan Advances After Clearing Two House Committees
WSJ 03/09/2017
House Republicans Repeat an Obama Error
WSJ 03/09/2017
GOP health-care bill would drop addiction treatment mandate covering 1.3 million Americans
Washington Post 03/10/2017
Amending Obamacare could break parts of the health-insurance market
The Economist 03/10/2017
G.O.P. Health Law Insures Fewer People, Nonpartisan Review Shows
The New York Times 03/13/2017
US health bill 'to leave 14m more uninsured' - BBC News
BBC News 03/13/2017
Grouped Articles
Americans worry, cheer as Congress moves to upend the Affordable Care Act
Washington Post 03/22/2017
House Vote to Repeal Affordable Care Act Is Postponed, Despite Trump’s Effort
The New York Times 03/23/2017
US healthcare bill: Blow for Trump as House vote delayed - BBC News
BBC News 03/23/2017
House Passes Measure to Repeal and Replace the Affordable Care Act
The New York Times 05/04/2017
What’s in the AHCA: The Major Provisions of the Republican Health Bill
The New York Times 05/04/2017
Opinion | The Trumpcare Disaster
The New York Times 05/04/2017
Howard Dean and other experts explain why.
Grouped Articles
President Obama writes a new health reform prescription
Washington Post 12/16/2009
Eugene Robinson - Which lawmakers can, and can't, play the health-care game
Washington Post 12/18/2009
Health-care bill wouldn't bring real reform
Washington Post 12/17/2009
Liberal Revolt on Health Care Stings White House
New York Times 12/18/2009
New York Times 12/18/2009
Support for Health Overhaul Wanes
Wall Street Journal 12/17/2009
Under the Obama healthcare law (Obamacare) businesses can opt to pay a fine of $2000 instead of providing coverage. The people losing coverage are then put in an exchange where they can buy insurance, with those whose premiums are more than 9.5% of income receiving subsidies. The incentive for employers to pay the fine and dump workers on the exchange can put 11 million to 80 million additional people on the exchange. The cost of the Obama health care law would rise significantly as a result.
Grouped Articles
Jim DeMint: We Won't Back Down on ObamaCare
Wall Street Journal 10/17/2013
Uninsured Skeptical of Health Care Law in Poll
New York Times 12/18/2013
The ObamaCare Bad News Continues
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2011
Surveys: Health insurance costs shifted to workers, even as premiums surge - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/28/2011
Clinton vs. Clinton on ObamaCare
WSJ 10/06/2016
Who Wins and Who Loses Under Republicans’ Health Care Plan
03/08/2017
The Congressional Budget Office estimates savings of $230 billion from the health care law. Other views show that some of the money should not have been counted in the math and some was doublecounted. The legislation involves spending $930 billion over a decade for insuring 32 million people, so is it overstating the case to say there are savings, says this different view.
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In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
New York Times 01/07/2011
House Approves Health Law Repeal
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2011
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
Washington Post 01/26/2011
The Right Way to Reform Medicare
Wall Street Journal 04/29/2011
Four Deficit Myths and a Frightening Fact
Wall Street Journal 01/19/2012
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
Middle class people are not eligible for subsidies and face rapidly rising insurance premiums as insurance companies increase premiums. This goes to pay for the added coast of treating people with prior health conditions and other problems who were previously uninsured or inadequately insured.
Grouped Articles
Rising Rates Pose Challenge to Health Law
Wall Street Journal 11/19/2015
Ailing Obama Health Care Act May Have to Change to Survive
The New York Times 10/03/2016
Clinton vs. Clinton on ObamaCare
WSJ 10/06/2016
Millions Risk Losing Health Insurance in Republican Plan, Analysts Say
The New York Times 03/08/2017
Who Wins and Who Loses Under Republicans’ Health Care Plan
03/08/2017
Who Wins and Who Loses Under Republicans’ Health Care Plan
03/08/2017
The risks of "cosmetic" reform in the Obama administration's efforts, and the unsustainability of the current system in the costs and results it provides.
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Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/2013
New York Times 12/21/2013
Patients’ Costs Skyrocket; Specialists’ Incomes Soar
New York Times 01/18/2014
Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending
New York Times 06/14/2009
Robert J. Samuelson - Wrong Way on Health 'Reform'
Washington Post 06/15/2009
Obama's Health Plan Needs Spending Controls, CBO Says
Washington Post 06/17/2009
Grouped Articles
Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/2013
New York Times 12/21/2013
Americans worry, cheer as Congress moves to upend the Affordable Care Act
Washington Post 03/22/2017
Grouped Articles
Lower Rise in Health Spending Predicted
Wall Street Journal 09/19/2013
Americans worry, cheer as Congress moves to upend the Affordable Care Act
Washington Post 03/22/2017
In a Dec. 2013 CBS/NYT poll 57% of the uninsured without healthcare coverage say the healthcare law will increase their costs of healthcare, only 20% say it will decrease it.
Grouped Articles
Uninsured Skeptical of Health Care Law in Poll
New York Times 12/18/2013
Exchanges See Little Progress on Uninsured
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2014
New Health Exchanges Reach 5 Million Enrollees
Wall Street Journal 03/18/2014
Wall Street Journal 03/22/2014
Supreme Court Allows Nationwide Health Care Subsidies
New York Times 06/25/2015
Ailing Obama Health Care Act May Have to Change to Survive
The New York Times 10/03/2016
Billing at inflated prices and performing more surgeries than needed- doctors, surgeons, consultants, distributors and hospitals working in a flawed system.
Grouped Articles
Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/2013
New York Times 12/21/2013
Small Slice of Doctors Account for Big Chunk of Medicare Costs
Wall Street Journal 04/09/2014
In Small California Hospitals, the Marketing of Back Surgery
Wall Street Journal 02/09/2012
Americans worry, cheer as Congress moves to upend the Affordable Care Act
Washington Post 03/22/2017
Opinion | The Real Problem With the Health Care Bill
The New York Times 05/04/2017
American companies, workers and the U.S. economy are being squeezed between the slow progress in addressing the growth of obesity related diabletes and other diseases and the growth in the costs of providing the care for the growth in these diseases. And yet no coordinated action plan to tackle the problem between companies, government, universities, public interest groups, and other groups exists.
Grouped Articles
Health Battle Over Soda Flares in Mexico
Wall Street Journal 08/28/2013
Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries
New York Times 09/24/2010
Americans' Eating Habits Take a Healthier Turn, Study Finds
Wall Street Journal 01/17/2014
Health Care Savings Could Start in the Cafeteria
New York Times 11/29/2009
Diabetes Cases Double to 347 Million
Wall Street Journal 06/27/2011
New York Times 06/14/2010
Grouped Articles
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
Republicans Reject Cost Estimate of Health Law Repeal
New York Times 01/06/2011
In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
New York Times 01/07/2011
Wall Street Journal 07/01/2012
The ObamaCare Bad News Continues
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2011
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
Grouped Articles
Lawmakers Debate Fate of Medicaid
WSJ 03/11/2017
G.O.P. Health Law Insures Fewer People, Nonpartisan Review Shows
The New York Times 03/13/2017
US health bill 'to leave 14m more uninsured' - BBC News
BBC News 03/13/2017
CBO Sees 24 Million More Uninsured, $337 Billion Deficit Cut in Coming Decade With GOP Health Plan
WSJ 03/13/2017
CBO Sees 24 Million More Uninsured, $337 Billion Deficit Cut in Coming Decade With GOP Health Plan
WSJ 03/13/2017
Health insurance woes helped elect Trump, but his cure may be more painful
The Guardian 03/21/2017
Health care reform legislation efforts and the political difficulties that they ran into in Congress. The new health care law passed over Republican opposition in Congress.
Grouped Articles
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
Wall Street Journal 11/09/2009
In Final Hours, an Intense Push for 'Yes' Votes
Wall Street Journal 11/09/2009
Health-Care Overhaul Proposals
Wall Street Journal 11/09/2009
Democrats Raise Alarms Over Health Bill Costs
New York Times 11/10/2009
Health-care bill's ability to reduce deficits debated
Washington Post 11/30/2009
Thirty Republican governors representing 180 million people and 60% of the states have a different perspective on Medicaid, with federal funding uncertain over the long term for Medicaid expansion envisaged under the health care law. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is the new chairman of the Republican Governors Association. Jindal is not planning on setting up an insurance exchange in his state.
Grouped Articles
Lower Rise in Health Spending Predicted
Wall Street Journal 09/19/2013
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
Health-Care Law Helps Add 3 Million to Medicaid
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2014
In Second Term, Obama Is Seen as Using âHidden Handâ Approach
New York Times 07/15/2013
Bobby Jindal Enters Presidential Race, Saying ‘It Is Time for a Doer’
New York Times 06/24/2015
Bobby Jindal Rises and Falls Because of Ambition
New York Times 07/12/2015
Grouped Articles
Americans worry, cheer as Congress moves to upend the Affordable Care Act
Washington Post 03/22/2017
The New York Times 03/26/2017
Democrats, Buoyed by G.O.P. Health Defeat, See No Need to Offer Hand
The New York Times 03/27/2017
White House Opens Door to Democrats in Wake of Health-Bill Failure
WSJ 03/27/2017
House Passes Measure to Repeal and Replace the Affordable Care Act
The New York Times 05/04/2017
Opinion | The Trumpcare Disaster
The New York Times 05/04/2017
Give it an "F" grade says Jeffrey Flier. It doesn't do much to control skyrocketing costs or to improve quality of care. Worse still its disingenous, as Congressmen are pretending to the public that reform has happened when it certainly has not.
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Health Care: Obama's Budget Skimps on Cost-Cutting
BusinessWeek 03/05/2009
Health-Care Reform: Who Pays Is So Taboo
BusinessWeek 05/20/2009
The Family Doctor: A Remedy for Health-Care Costs?
BusinessWeek 06/25/2009
Opportunities in the Obesity Epidemic
BusinessWeek 09/01/2009
Health Care: Lessons for America
BusinessWeek 08/13/2009
Who Picks Up the Tab for Health Reform
BusinessWeek 10/22/2009
Grouped Articles
The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath
New York Times 10/12/2013
Uninsured Skeptical of Health Care Law in Poll
New York Times 12/18/2013
New York Times 12/21/2013
Rising Rates Pose Challenge to Health Law
Wall Street Journal 11/19/2015
What to Do on the Day After ObamaCare
Wall Street Journal 04/03/2012
AMA Supports Training More M.D.s
Wall Street Journal 04/12/2012
Author Rosenthal, Priceton economist Reinhardt, and Chernew of the Harvard Medical School provide an assessment of what Obamacare does for prices and cost in the U.S. healthcare system.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 12/21/2013
Economy Led to Cuts in Use of Health Care, Study Says
New York Times 08/16/2010
Patients’ Costs Skyrocket; Specialists’ Incomes Soar
New York Times 01/18/2014
Wall Street Journal 03/22/2014
Voters’ Second Thoughts on Hope and Change
New York Times 11/04/2014
Rising Rates Pose Challenge to Health Law
Wall Street Journal 11/19/2015
Grouped Articles
'Alternative' Medicine Is Mainstream
Wall Street Journal 01/09/2009
Washington Post 04/13/2016
Americans worry, cheer as Congress moves to upend the Affordable Care Act
Washington Post 03/22/2017
Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths, global disease study reveals
The Guardian 09/14/2017
The cost of most healthcare services are double or higher in the U.S. than in Canada, Germany, France and Japan. By not bringing prices in line with the price in other major developed countries, the U.S. is effectively defunding infrastructure, R&D, education and other important means of improving competitiveness say experts. The methods of setting price present in these countries are notably absent in the U.S. The Obama healthcare bill and before that the Bush Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit simply leave this problem unaddressed.
Grouped Articles
Cuts Would Only Shift Health-Care Costs
Wall Street Journal 07/13/2011
Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/2013
The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath
New York Times 10/12/2013
New York Times 12/21/2013
Economy Led to Cuts in Use of Health Care, Study Says
New York Times 08/16/2010
Washington Post 09/22/2015
Grouped Articles
Obamacare: A blessing for some small businesses, and a nightmare for others - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/17/2014
Rising Rates Pose Challenge to Health Law
Wall Street Journal 11/19/2015
Clinton vs. Clinton on ObamaCare
WSJ 10/06/2016
Americans worry, cheer as Congress moves to upend the Affordable Care Act
Washington Post 03/22/2017
The Big Health Fix Bruises Ryan and Trump
WSJ 03/24/2017
An average of major public opinion polls compiled by Real Clear Politics website shows 50.5% of Americans opposed the U.S. health care law in March 2012. By 2017 with high premiums and high deductibles the Obama Affordable Care Act was not seen by middle class as the solution to healthcare needs, though it helped the uninsured and the poor with subsidies. The Republican plan of Speaker Ryan and the House was seen as not sensitive to the needs of low income older Americans even as it sought to bring down premiums. As one middle class American, Mr. Riffle, in a 2017 survey by the Washington Post put it- the problem was the high cost of medical care in the U.S. and pricing of healthcare, until members of Congress used the plans on the insurance exchanges not much would happen to benefit most people.
Grouped Articles
Chief Justice John Roberts’s health-care ruling gets plenty of second-guessing - The Washington Post
Washington Post 06/30/2012
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
In Rural Iowa, Spending, Not the Shutdown, Raises Worry
New York Times 10/04/2013
Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash
New York Times 11/22/2013
Uninsured Skeptical of Health Care Law in Poll
New York Times 12/18/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/20/2014
Grouped Articles
Health Insurance Companies Seek Big Rate Increases for 2016
New York Times 07/03/2015
Rising Rates Pose Challenge to Health Law
Wall Street Journal 11/19/2015
Ailing Obama Health Care Act May Have to Change to Survive
The New York Times 10/03/2016
Clinton vs. Clinton on ObamaCare
WSJ 10/06/2016
Americans worry, cheer as Congress moves to upend the Affordable Care Act
Washington Post 03/22/2017
The Big Health Fix Bruises Ryan and Trump
WSJ 03/24/2017
Grouped Articles
E-Mails Highlight Extent of Obama's Deal With Industry on Health Care
New York Times 06/08/2012
Emails Reveal How the White House Bought Big Pharma
Wall Street Journal 06/12/2012
Wall Street Journal 06/11/2012
Americans worry, cheer as Congress moves to upend the Affordable Care Act
Washington Post 03/22/2017
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