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You Also Can't Keep Your Doctor
Everyone now is clamoring about Affordable Care Act winners and losers. I am one of the losers. My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky.
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Meet The People Behind The 'Brosurance' Obamacare Ads That Are Making The Internet Cringe
Keg stands, birth control, and Ryan Gosling. That's how a pair of Colorado non-profits are trying to promote Obamacare.
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California shuts down 10 “fraudulent” health care websites
In a move rarely seen by state authorities, California has shut down 10 domain names that the Golden State claims were fraudulent imitations of Covered California, the state’s own version of the Affordable Care Act. On Thursday, the state’s attorney general announced that it had forced 10 domain names to either redirect to the bona fide Covered California website or to remove their sites entirely. California also sent cease and desist letters to the operators of those sites.
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Can ObamaCare be saved?
On Friday, 39 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted in support of a bill put forward by GOP Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan that proponents claimed would allow millions of people who had received cancellation notices since ObamaCare went into effect October 1 to stay on their health plans.
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Tensions high as Healthcare.gov relaunch looms
Computer specialists are scrambling to meet one of the world's biggest deadlines for a working website: Healthcare.gov's proposed overhaul is due Sunday. The website for Barack Obama's signature health care plan struggled to keep up with crush of visitors after launching in October.
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Is 834 the new 404? For Healthcare.gov, it might be
The White House was eager to sell American consumers on the improved Healthcare.gov earlier this month. But despite significant improvements on the front end, there are still lingering reports of back end problems keeping insurance companies from getting accurate information about their new clients.
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Under Obamacare, nearly three times as many women are getting free birth control pills
A new study from the Guttmacher Institute shows a big increase in privately-insured women obtaining contraceptives without any co-payment over the past year. The health-care law, among its many provisions, requires insurance companies to cover the complete cost of FDA-approved contraceptives at no cost to the patient. The point of the Guttmacher study was to know if insurers were complying with the new requirement.
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Healthcare.gov's Good News and Bad News, by the Numbers
Nearly 260,000 Americans enrolled in private health insurance plans through the federal and state-run exchanges in November, according to the latest Obamacare numbers.
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One Man's Attempt to Navigate HealthCare.gov
One of the biggest issues with HealthCare.gov is that it still leaves too much responsibility with the individual.
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Wary of Obamacare, some Republicans sign up anyway
Julie Davis has every reason to be skeptical of Obamacare: She's a Republican, her father is a physician who is wary of socialized medicine and her insurance was canceled
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AIDS patients in Obamacare limbo as insurers reject checks
Hundreds of people with HIV/AIDS in Louisiana trying to obtain coverage under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform are in danger of being thrown out of the insurance plan they selected in a dispute over federal subsidies and the interpretation of federal rules about preventing Obamacare fraud.
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Duo tracks double-dipping in U.S. oil firms' toxic tank cleanup
A pioneer in cleaning up toxic messes, Thomas Schruben long suspected major oil companies of being paid twice for dealing with leaks from underground fuel storage tanks
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Why I'm Getting Sick of Defending Obamacare
It's getting difficult and slinking toward impossible to defend the Affordable Care Act. The latest blow to Democratic candidates, liberal activists, and naïve columnists like me came Monday from the White House, which announced yet another delay in the Obamacare implementation.
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The French way of cancer treatment
The French healthcare was not just first rate -- it was humane. Rather than fighting with insurance, all our energy could be spent on one thing: caring for my father.
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In the Debate Over Health Care, ‘Real People’ Become Human Volleyballs
In the Republican response to the State of the Union address, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington lamented the travails of “Bette in Spokane,” whose insurance policy had been canceled because of the health care law and who faced huge premium increases to replace it.
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Why Taxpayers Will Bail Out the Rich When the Next Storm Hits
As homeowners around the nation protest skyrocketing premiums for federal flood insurance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has quietly moved the lines on its flood maps to benefit hundreds of oceanfront condo buildings and million-dollar homes, according to an analysis of federal records by NBC News.
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Hospital records of all NHS patients sold to insurers
Hospital records of all NHS patients sold for insurance purposes days after controversial plans to extract patient data from GP files put on hold
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What you need to know about March health deadline
Sick of hearing about the health care law? Plenty of people have tuned out after all the political jabber and website woes. But now is the time to tune back in, before it’s too late. The big deadline is coming March 31.
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Billionaire buys $201 million life insurance policy
Somewhere in Silicon Valley, a billionaire has taken out $201 million in life insurance. Guinness World Records, which announced the policy, said it is the largest ever issued.
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MH370: How Do Insurers Put a Price on Life?
On Monday, when Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 “ended in the southern Indian Ocean,” it wasn’t simply a concession to the reality of the situation. It was a signal to the carrier’s insurance companies, and to lawyers around the world.
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