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As Health Law Turns Three, Public Is As Confused As Ever

As the Affordable Care Act nears its third birthday this Saturday, a poll finds the public actually knows less about the law now than when it passed in 2010. Oh, and a lot of what people think they...

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At Age 3, Affordable Care Act Is No Less Controversial

The Affordable Care Act turns 3 on Saturday, and it seems just as divisive as the day President Obama signed it."This law expands our competitiveness, promotes wellness and prevention, and enhances the...

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Arkansas Medicaid Expansion Attracts Other States' Interest

Since the Supreme Court made the Medicaid expansion under the federal health law optional last year, states' decisions have largely split along party lines.

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White House Delays Part Of Health Care Law

Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Obama administration is delaying the start of a key piece of the Affordable Care Act - the national healthcare law. Workers in small businesses will have to wait an...

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Administration Hits Pause On Health Exchanges For Small Businesses

The Obama administration is delaying the start of a key piece of the Affordable Care Act.

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Judge Rules Morning-After Pill Should Be Available To All Ages

A federal judge in New York has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to lift all age restrictions on the over-the-counter sale of the so-called Morning After Pill. The decision could herald the end...

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With Plan B Ruling, Judge Signs Off On Years Of Advocacy

A federal judge ordered Friday what women's groups have failed to accomplish politically for a dozen years. He ruled that Plan B, the most commonly used morning-after birth control pill, be sold...

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The 'Hard-To-Change' Legacy Of Medicare Payments

The budget President Obama will send to Congress Wednesday is expected to include some $400 billion in reductions to Medicare and other health programs.And if the word around Washington is correct, it...

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Why Obama's Budget Could Make Health Waves

OK, the conventional wisdom about the budget President Obama sent to Congress yesterday is that's irrelevant.It's two months late, after all, and the House and Senate have already approved their own...

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Philadelphia Case Exposes Deep Rift In Abortion Debate

This is the sixth week of the trial of Dr.

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Family Doctors Consider Dropping Birth Control Training Rule

One of the more popular provisions of the federal health law requires that women be given much freer access to prescription methods of birth control.

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FDA OKs Prescription-Free Plan B Pill For Women 15 And Up

In an effort to find a compromise for a politically fraught issue, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a proposal to make the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B more available to some...

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Second Thoughts On Medicaid From Oregon's Unique Experiment

Two years ago, a landmark study found that having Medicaid health insurance makes a positive difference in people's lives.Backers of the program have pointed to that study time and again in their push...

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Women's Health Groups Angered By Morning-After Pill Moves

The administration's actions this week on emergency contraception have left many women's health groups sputtering with anger.But what really has some of the President Obama's usual allies irritated is...

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Why A Slowdown In Health Spending Is Starting To Look Real

So you know all that talk about how the boatload of money going to health care will bankrupt the nation if something isn't done soon?Well, it turns out that while politicians were bickering, the...

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Judge Denies Administration's Request To Delay Plan-B Ruling

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Philly Murder Conviction Expected To Inflame Abortion Debate

Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now, the murder conviction of Kermit Gosnell is likely to bring more sparks to the already heated abortion debate in Washington and across the nation. Those on both...

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A Sharper Abortion Debate After Gosnell Verdict

The murder conviction in Philadelphia of abortion provider Dr.

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Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

The news that U.S.

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Swell Of Goodwill For First Medicare Chief Confirmed Since 2004

When the Senate voted Tuesday to make Marilyn Tavenner the official administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, it was the first time the world's greatest deliberative body had...

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