U.S. West Coast Port Pay Talks Hinge on Health-Care Costs
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The Obama administration's $150 million tax on health insurance for 20,000 dockworkers at West Coast ports is complicating contract negotiations whose failure could shut down 29 ports at a cost of $2 billion a day. The International Longshore and ...
Health care subsidies issue rushed to Court
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Nine days after two federal appeals courts reached opposite rulings on a major new threat to the federal health care law, challengers pursuing that threat rushed to the Supreme Court on Thursday with a plea to step in and settle the dispute as soon as ...
Health-Law Opponents Seek Supreme Court ReviewWall Street Journal
Lawyers challenging health subsidies seek quick Supreme Court rulingLos Angeles Times
Health care subsidies issue rushed to Court (FURTHER UPDATE)
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The Affordable Care Act set up a system of marketplaces where individuals needing health insurance — and required by the Act to get it – could go to shop for coverage from a variety of insurance company offerings. People unable to afford policies were ...
Health-Law Opponents Seek Supreme Court ReviewWall Street Journal
Obama administration seeks review of health-care aid rebuffAkron Beacon Journal
NC health insurance subsidies could go awayThe Independent Weekly
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Probe exposes flaws behind Obama health-care program
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WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan congressional investigation has concluded that management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for the crippling computer woes that paralyzed the rollout of President Barack Obama's health-care program last ...
Probe Exposes Flaws Behind Health Care Site LaunchRealClearPolitics
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Senate Approves Veteran and Highway Bills
New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final approval on Thursday night to a significant expansion of veterans' health care and to legislation to replenish the Highway Trust Fund through next spring, then left town for a five-week summer break. The two votes ...
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American Held in North Korea Says Health Is Failing
New York Times
Kenneth Bae, the American missionary imprisoned in North Korea for almost two years, said in an interview released Thursday by a pro-North Korea newspaper that he felt abandoned by his own government and had developed new lung and liver ailments, ...
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Senate passes veterans' health bill
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a compromise bill allowing veterans to seek private care and adding $17 billion to the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire doctors to address long wait lists. The final vote in favor was 91-3. The bill, which was ...
Senate Approves Veteran and Highway BillsNew York Times
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California Sees Health-Law Premiums Rising 4.2% in 2015
Wall Street Journal
Applicants check in at a health-insurance enrollment event in Oakland, Calif., in March. Premiums for Affordable Care Act plans in California are set to rise only 4.2% on average next year. Covered California, the state's exchange, said it negotiated ...
Obamacare: Here's the latest to your healthSFGate (blog)
California 2015 health insurance rates climb an average of 4.2 percent89.3 KPCC
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Ebola outbreak: Is the United States health care system prepared?
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(CNN) — It's not the type of plane either Kent Brantly or Nancy Writebol likely planned to take home. But when health officials evacuate the two American aid workers infected with Ebola in west Africa, it will be the plane they take. The Centers for ...
Americans infected with Ebola to be evacuatedWJXT Jacksonville
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Work to Bolster Health Website Is Raising Cost, Officials Say
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials said Thursday that the cost of the federal health insurance exchange was growing because they were assigning new work to contractors in an effort to prevent a repetition of the problems that crippled ...