House Passes Bill That Would Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks
The House has passed one of the most far-reaching abortion bills in decades. But it's unlikely to ever become law.By a mostly party-line vote Tuesday of 228-196, lawmakers passed the "Pain-Capable...
View ArticleWith Health Exchanges Poised To Open, PR Push Draws Scrutiny
This weekend marks 100 days until people can begin signing up for new health insurance coverage under the federal health care law. It also marks another milestone: the launch of an enormous public...
View ArticleFDA OKs Prescription-Free Plan B For All Ages, Ending Battle
The Food and Drug Administration Thursday evening approved over-the-counter sale, with no age restrictions, of Plan B One-Step. That's the morning-after pill whose status has been the subject of a...
View ArticleCould LeBron and RGIII Help Sell The Affordable Care Act?
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View ArticleMaine Once Again Allows Mail-Order Canadian Drugs To Cut Costs
It's deja vu all over again in Maine.For the first time in years, a state has acted to allow its citizens to purchase prescription drugs by mail from other countries. The idea is to take advantage of...
View ArticleAdministration Clarifies Insurance Rules For Contraceptives
The Obama administration is moving to end a long-running controversy over making no-cost birth control available under the federal health law.Under final rules issued Friday, most employers will have...
View ArticleYou Ask, We Answer: Demystifying The Affordable Care Act
The biggest changes in health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act are set to begin less than three months from now. Oct. 1 is when people can start signing up for coverage in new state...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act's Employer Mandate Delayed
The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it's delaying a key part of the Affordable Care Act. Businesses will now have another year to prove that they are providing health insurance — or that...
View ArticleWhite House Delays Key Piece Of Affordable Care Act
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.DAVID GREENE, HOST: And I'm David Greene.The Obama administration set off some pre-4th of July...
View ArticleDelay For Insurance Mandate Pleases Businesses
The Obama administration's decision late Tuesday to postpone the requirement for employers with 50 or more workers to offer health coverage or risk fines has satisfied some key members of the coalition...
View ArticleCatholics Split Again On Coverage For Birth Control
Two prominent Catholic groups are finding themselves, once again, on opposite sides of a key issue regarding the Affordable Care Act.Three years ago, the Catholic Health Association, whose members run...
View ArticleGOP Says, Why Not Delay That Health Care Law, Like, Forever?
Sensing that recent delays in key portions of the Affordable Care Act have caught the Obama administration at a weak point in its rollout of the law, Republicans in Congress are doubling down on their...
View ArticleMessy Rollout Of Health Law Echoes Medicare Drug Expansion
It hasn't been a good week for the Affordable Care Act. After announcements by the administration of several delays of key portions of the law, Republicans returned to Capitol Hill and began piling...
View ArticleTexas Abortion Fight Is Just One Of Many This Year
The eyes of the nation may be on Texas, as legislators fight over whether to impose strict new regulations on abortion and those who provide it.
View ArticleWhite House Muddles Obamacare Messaging — Again
This summer was supposed to be a time to reintroduce the public to the Affordable Care Act and teach people how to sign up for benefits this fall.But that's not what's happening.Instead, earlier this...
View ArticleState Abortion Laws Differ From Doctors In Defining 20 Weeks
Texas last week became the 12th state to ban most abortions after 20 weeks. But most of the state laws don't define 20 weeks the same way doctors do.
View ArticleState Laws Limiting Abortion May Face Challenges On 20-Week Limit
Banning abortions after a specific point in pregnancy has been a popular trend in the states this year. Last week, GOP Gov.
View ArticleObama Turns To Comedians To Promote Health Coverage
Who needs jocks when you've got Jennifer Hudson and Amy Poehler?That seems to be the message coming out of the White House following a star-studded meeting yesterday led by White House Senior Advisor...
View ArticlePlan B To Hit Shelves, Protected From Generics
As expected, the Food and Drug Administration has granted an additional three years of protection from generic competition to the makers of the most popular form of the emergency contraceptive pill,
View ArticleWill Obamacare Mean Fewer Jobs? Depends On Whom You Ask
Of all the contentious claims about the Affordable Care Act, few have been more contentious than over the impact it's having on employers.It's hard to pick up a newspaper or turn on a television...
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