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Obamacare and the Medicaid Expansion: How Does Your State Fare?

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Obamacare and the Medicaid Expansion: How Does Your State Fare? New Jersey is a Net Payer Drew Gonshorowski March 5, 2013 at 1:28 pm The Medicaid expansion is touted by proponents of Obamacare as a “no-brainer.” While it is true that some states may see projected savings, it is erroneous to claim [...]
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On CBS, Cheesecake Factory CEO Warns ObamaCare Will Be ‘Very Costly’

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On CBS, Cheesecake Factory CEO Warns ObamaCare Will Be ‘Very Costly’ NORAH O’DONNELL: I have a really important question for you: one of the things that’s going to change, of course, in the new year is ObamaCare, or the Affordable Care Act. How do you implement that at Cheesecake Factory, and how [...]
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Obamacare : Same type of rules that created the banking crisis , Insurers have no way to asses risk

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6 months ago
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Obamacare : Same type of rules that created the banking crisis , Insurers have no way to asses risk Federal government releases long-awaited health reform rules By Maggie Fox, NBC News Long-awaited federal rules for health insurance plans came out Tuesday, and they make clear that insurance plans [...]
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Republican governors hold keys to Obamacare

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Republican governors hold keys to Obamacare Why ObamaCare Is Still No Sure Thing The majority of state governors are Republicans, and they have the power to disarm the health-care law November 20 ,2012 Capretta and Levin Champions of ObamaCare want Americans to believe that the president’s [...]
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140 Million Families Will Be Forced to Submit Obamacare Individual Mandate Compliance Forms to IRS

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140 Million Families Will Be Forced to Submit Obamacare Individual Mandate Compliance Forms to IRS CBO estimates hours and hours of more paperwork for American taxpayers because of the Individual Mandate tax. The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday announced that six million American families [...]
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How Bad Does He Have To Be?

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How Bad Does He Have To Be? A few months ago, I was visiting a good friend of mine, when his niece stopped by. She’s about 23 years old, and like most younger voters, she got swept up in the “Hope and Change” hooey in 2008 and voted for Barack Obama. So when my friend saw her in August, he asked [...]
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New Jersey’s first medical-marijuana dispensary wins clearance to begin selling

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New Jersey’s first medical-marijuana dispensary wins clearance to begin selling New Jersey’s first medical marijuana dispensary has been cleared to begin selling the drug to patients who register with the state Department of Health. After weeks of setbacks, Greenleaf Compassion Center received a [...]
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Top Five Worst Obamacare Taxes Coming in 2013

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Top Five Worst Obamacare Taxes Coming in 2013 Of the twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare, below are the five worst that will be foisted upon Americans for the first time on January 1, 2013. Of the twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare, below are the five worst that will be foisted upon [...]
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Hospitals Warned by U.S. on Medicare Electronic Billing

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file photo of emergency response Hospitals Warned by U.S. on Medicare Electronic Billing By Alex Wayne – Sep 25, 2012 7:38 AM ET Hospital bills are being audited as the U.S. tries to identify whether new electronic records were used to “game the system” and overcharge the Medicare health [...]
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Survey: So far, efforts to control health costs have weak impact

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Survey: So far, efforts to control health costs have weak impact New Jersey health care experts are hoping changes now under way will eventually counterbalance data reported in a new survey that found the cost of medical claims paid by employer-sponsored health plans continues to rise. Overall [...]
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Obamacare : Six million will pay health law penalty maybe even you

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Six million will pay health law penalty maybe even you  By Russ Britt, MarketWatch LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Six million Americans, or roughly 2% of the current population, will end up paying a penalty for failing to have health insurance when the full effect of the 2010 health-care overhaul law [...]
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Obama and Romney on Healthcare Reform: They Don’t Always Disagree

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Obama and Romney on Healthcare Reform: They Don’t Always Disagree Written by Doug McPherson, Policy Analyst, CiperHealth | September 12, 2012 Despite the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act two months ago, a cloud of uncertainty has hung over the [...]
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The case for liberating physicians from the dictates of third-party payers

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The case for liberating physicians from the dictates of third-party payers Of all the people in the healthcare system, none is more central than the physician. As I explain in my book Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, fundamental reform that lowers costs, raises quality, and improves access [...]
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In North Carolina, student insurance costs rise under Obamacare

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In North Carolina, student insurance costs rise under Obamacare CNN Political Reporter Peter Hamby Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) – President Obama’s health care reform law, which expands preventative care and lets young people remain on their parents’ health insurance plans well into their 20s, [...]
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A REPUBLICAN’S BLUEPRINT FOR REAL HEALTHCARE REFORM

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A REPUBLICAN’S BLUEPRINT FOR REAL HEALTHCARE REFORM By Ian Linker Now that Rep. Paul Ryan (R- Wisc.) is Mitt Romney’s choice to be Vice President, and the Republican National Convention is underway, we have been hearing a lot about Mr. Ryan’s Medicare-reform proposal. Dubbed “premium support,” the [...]
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The Valley Hospital and the Ridgewood Public Library Launch a New Walking Club, Healthy Steps Set for September 10

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The Valley Hospital and the Ridgewood Public Library Launch a New Walking Club, Healthy Steps Set for September 10 The Valley Hospital and The Ridgewood Public Library are proud to announce the launch of a new Walking Club called “Healthy Steps.” The Club will celebrate its launch with a special [...]
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N.J. will be testing ground for new primary-care practice model

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N.J. will be testing ground for new primary-care practice model The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today selected 73 primary-care practices and five health insurers in New Jersey to participate in a new federal program aimed at incentivizing the creation of a patient-centered health [...]
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