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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), informally referred to as Obamacare, is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The law (along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010) is the principal health care reform legislation of the 111th United States Congress.
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Public opinion has tipped against the new health-care law, the Kaiser Family Foundation's monthly tracking poll found.
Some 51% of respondents in the October survey now say they have an unfavorable opinion of the legislation passed by Democrats in March 2010, and just 34% of them feel favorably about it, the nonpartisan foundation found in a telephone survey of 1,223 people carried out in October.Earlier polls by the foundation showed public opinion was roughly split though the gap had begun to widen in recent months. In September, 41% of respondents had a favorable view of the law, compared with 46% who viewed it unfavorably.Every Republican presidential candidate has pledged to repeal the overhaul, and their campaigns are likely to use these numbers.Click here to read the full story....What "religious freedom" bill?Republicans stung by the culture wars that dominated the nation's political discourse this year are standing down on social issues, acu...
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Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said Wednesday night he expects that the court has already had second thoughts about parts of its controversial C...
AARP lobbied for the new health care law and now it stands to profit, Republican lawmakers charged Wednesday as they called for the IRS to investigate whether the po...
Few American voters like the new health care law — and most want it changed or repealed.In addition, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday, almost twice as...
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama's health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number...
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WASHINGTON -- Two of the central promises of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law are unlikely to be fulfilled, Medicare's independent economic expert t...
PENSACOLA, Florida -- The Obama administration will try to persuade a federal judge Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit by 20 states that claim the president's health car...
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The concerns of the American people were ignored by the Democratic-majority in Congress when the health care bill was enacted. Despite promises from the administrati...
A Republican senator on Thursday denounced the $18 billion in provisions added to a catchall spending bill to keep the government running through next year, saying t...
House Republicans releasing emails and documents on dealings between the White House and the drug industry before the national health care law's passage
House Republicans releasing emails and documents on dealings between the White House and the drug industry before the national health care law's passage
WASHINGTON -- So long death panels. Hello "rationing" board.An independent panel authorized by President Barack Obama's health care law to control excessive Medicare...
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