Democrats launch $5 million campaign to defend health care law

By Peter H. Stone

Democrats raise $5 million to promote and protect health care reform law

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"… ess Administration. …"

Fact Check: Rep. Ryan's budget spin

By FactCheck.Org

GOP budget chairman throws some curves while 'setting the record straight'

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"… mits seniors to bureaucratically rationed health care.” In fact, the new health care law states that the advisory board to which Ryan refers “shall not include a …"

"… ys out-of-pocket costs would be unaffected or lower for many.He claims the health care law doesn’t improve Medicare’s finances. Not true. It does, but experts wo …"

"… funding for the Independent Payment Advisory Board created by the federal health care law. But it’s wrong to say that the advisory board will ration care or that …"

"… rrect answer, which is “Yes,” and instead misleadingly claims that the health care law’s provisions “increase prescription-drug prices for everyone.”Medica …"

Blue Dogs, decimated by defeats and retirements, turn to lobbying shops

By Aaron Mehta

A third of Blue Dog congress members who left office in January are now on K Street

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"… the health care debate. He pointed out that voting for President Obama’s health care law may well have cost him his seat, and “I darn sure want to make sure it w …"

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Analysis — Obama’s view: Not a lot left to debate in health care law

By Wendell Potter

New IRS reporting requirement could be axed, but malpractice reform is not likely....

Analysis — Death panels, fact and fiction

By Wendell Potter

“Death panels” are back in the news and Congress is turning its attention to them once again. The problem is, lawmakers are looking in all t

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"… plicants.The results of that investigation led lawmakers to include in the health care law a provision barring insurers from using pre-existing conditions to deny co …"

Joe Barton — Energy and Commerce Committee?

By Aaron Mehta

A longtime conservative from Texas, Rep. Joe Barton rocketed onto the national spotlight by famously apologizing to BP during a June hearing

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"… jobs.”The Texas representative has also been against President Obama’s health care law from the start. During debate over the bill, Barton pledged that “If the …"

"… ons do further damage”Barton has said that repealing President Obama’s health care law would be his top priority. “Oversight of the existing law will build a c …"

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Little-known AMA group has outsized influence on Medicare payments

By Joe Eaton and Joe Eaton

Early this month, a group of 29 doctors gathered in a modern conference room at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, a few blocks from Lake Shore Driv

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"… bber stamp.”RUC critics see hope in the Obama administration and the new health care law, which requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to periodically …"

Unproven for older women, digital mammography saps Medicare dollars

By Joe Eaton, Elizabeth Lucas and David Donald

High-tech, digital mammography may not be any better at detecting breast cancer in women over 65 than older film-based systems, but Medicare

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"… ind of clinical assessment of efficacy.”It does not appear that the 2010 health care law will change that. The law makes a push for federally-funded comparative-ef …"

Chamber seeks cash from insurers, financial firms for new effort

By Peter H. Stone

Even as it plowed tens of millions of dollars into ads this year to help mostly Republicans notch Congressional victories, the U.S. Chamber

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"… s, commissions, panels and other bodies” created by the recently enacted health care law. The Dodd-Frank financial reform law includes “320 required rulemakings, …"

"… ssue.Josten said the Chamber has already begun fighting a provision of the health care law that requires any company buying goods or services worth $600 or more a ye …"

Federal judge with medical industry investments rules against health care law

By Laurel Adams

U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who ruled Monday that the health care reform law is unconstitutional, holds financial investments in healt

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"… as much as $75,000.In his 78-page opinion, Vinson said the section of the health care law that requires Americans to obtain health insurance exceeds the regulatory …"

"… and Judge Henry Hudson of Virginia are the two judges to rule against the health care law. Both were appointed by Ronald Reagan. Two other judges, appointed by Bill …"

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