Obama’s Health Care Reform Upheld in Court
Posted by Staff (09/10/2011 @ 12:12 am)

Obama’s health care bill is not overturned in a court ruling.
Obama wins this round and now has the Tea Party and Republican party with whom to do battle at the primaries.
A sluggish economy and poor jobs market may just be the momentum behind the president to make this law stick.
But does it help anyone to be required to buy into a broken health care system?
Standardizing costs and preventive health care should be the priority. Supporting big pharmaceutical companies with tax payer dollars will not help in the long run.
“Virginia, the sole plaintiff here, lacks standing to bring this action,” said the ruling from the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. “Accordingly, we vacate the judgment of the district court and remand with instructions to dismiss the case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.”
The Richmond-based court becomes the second such federal court to uphold the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, particularly the “individual mandate” provision requiring most Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face a financial penalty. Another appeals court had ruled against the administration.
Health reform law begins to take effect
Posted by Staff (09/25/2010 @ 7:53 pm)
Perhaps the new health care reform law will start to become more popular as the law starts to kick in. Many provisions went into effect this week.
On Thursday, the six-month anniversary of the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a number of its most central consumer protections take effect, just in time for the midterm elections.
Starting now, insurance companies will no longer be permitted to exclude children because of pre-existing health conditions, which the White House said could enable 72,000 uninsured to gain coverage. Insurers also will be prohibited from imposing lifetime limits on benefits.
The law will now forbid insurers to drop sick and costly customers after discovering technical mistakes on applications. It requires that they offer coverage to children under 26 on their parents’ policies.
It establishes a menu of preventive procedures, like colonoscopies, mammograms and immunizations, that must be covered without co-payments. And it allows consumers who join a new plan to keep their own doctors and to appeal insurance company reimbursement decisions to a third party.
All of these provisions will be very popular, for good reason.
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