Topic: Barack Obama

Analysis: Deficit may be biggest threat to healthcare reforms

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mounting U.S. deficit could pose a much greater threat to the survival of President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms than either the Supreme Court or 2012 elections.Many health experts say innovations in delivering medical care and the creation of ...

Top court names lawyers to argue healthcare case

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday named an attorney to argue that challenges to President Barack Obama's healthcare insurance requirements must wait until after that part of the law has taken effect in 2014.The high court also appointed a second ...

Supreme Court names lawyers to argue healthcare case

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday named an attorney to argue that challenges to President Barack Obama's healthcare insurance requirements must wait until after that part of the law has taken effect in 2014.The high court also appointed a second ...

Obama administration launches $1 billion healthcare drive

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday said $1 billion of federal funds allocated in last year's health reform law will go toward innovation programs designed to boost jobs and improve patient care.The announcement is the administration's latest attempt to show ...

Supreme Court agrees to hear Obama healthcare law

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, with an election-year ruling due by July on the healthcare system's biggest overhaul in nearly 50 years.The decision had been widely expected since ...

Obama healthcare law issues before high court

(Reuters) - Six cases involving President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul legislation are pending before the Supreme Court as part of the legal battle over the law's fate.The following key issues have emerged in the legal briefs recently filed in the cases stemming ...

Obama's healthcare law tops new Supreme Court term

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul will top the agenda in the new Supreme Court term that opens on Monday and could be the most momentous in decades.Returning from its three-month recess, the nation's highest court will confront legal ...

US health insurance costs up 9% in year: study

Company-provided health insurance, one of the largest costs of US businesses and households alike, rose nine percent over the past year despite the sluggish economy, according to a new study released Tuesday.The average cost for employer-provided family health care insurance has hit ...

Obama vows to veto Medicare cuts without tax reform

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that he would veto any bill that cuts Medicare benefits without requiring companies and wealthy Americans to pay their "fair share" of taxes."We are not going to have a one-sided deal that hurts ...

Americans turned to public health insurance in 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More Americans became reliant on public health insurance and lost coverage sponsored by their employers in 2010, the U.S. government said on Tuesday.The U.S. Census Bureau's annual report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage showed that more people ...
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