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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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The Department of Health and Human Services' recently signed $17.
6 million dollar contract with public relations firm Porter-Novelli, to tout the Affordable Care Act, is coming under congressional scrutiny.Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, has written a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking for details on how that money will be used. "If you're trying to educate the public as to how to comply with a specific law, there might be a purpose in it," Portman told Fox News. "If, on the other hand, you're doing a PR blitz to try to sell a program during an election year, that seems to me to be more in the realm of something a political organization should be paying for rather than us as taxpayers."In the interest of belt-tightening, Portman and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., earlier this year wrote to 12 federal agencies asking for an accounting of any taxpayer money spent on public relations, publicity and advertising. Ten of 12 agencies complied with their request. The Department of Heal...Not even Mother's Day could be shielded from election-year politics. The White House on Sunday released specially tailored e-cards touting the benefits for moms of t...
A Catholic university in Ohio said Tuesday it is being forced to end a student health insurance program over the Obama administration's contraception mandate and cos...
Rep. Tim Scott and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor discuss their conference to encourage small business owners and ideas to boost the economy
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John Hlinko and Matt Mackowiak weigh in on the Obama and Romney attacks
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Karl Rove takes of the politics of the president's gay marriage stance, the new job numbers and much more
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"It was like a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us."-- Jack Cobb , formerly a worker at GST Steel, talking about Bain Capital in a new campaign ad fo...
The federal government has awarded a nearly $6 million grant to a Chicago hospital with close ties to President Obama.The grant was awarded to the University of Chic...
Rep. Artur Davis on why he's now part of the GOP
The candidate who started the GOP primary season with the most money and as the favorite to win – as the man who came in second in the '08 race – is now the winner. ...
It is easy to forget, and so it is important to remember, that reasonable and conscientious people – including judges – sometimes disagree, reasonably, about things ...
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
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee urges the Supreme Court to uphold health care reform law while Catholic groups sue over it. Who will win?
Health-insurance companies must tell customers who get a premium rebate this summer that the check is the result of the Obama administration's health-care law, accor...
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