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Koch Brothers vs. Health Reform
Do all roads lead to Koch? Conservative activists will rally at the Supreme Court tomorrow to encourage the overturn of the Affordable Care Act. The “Hands Off My Health Care” protest—which …
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Supreme Court Health Care Arguments to Begin Monday
The United States Supreme Court Building. (Photo: David Baron) Washington - The circus surrounding the Supreme Court health care arguments this week will begin before dawn Monday. Demonstrators will …
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Health Care Jujitsu
Not surprisingly, today’s debut Supreme Court argument over the so-called “individual mandate” requiring everyone to buy health insurance revolved around epistemological niceties such as the meaning of a “tax,” …
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Brooklyn Art Students Join National Surge of College Activists
(Image: Tina Scott) “I get asked a lot, 'Why are so many activists also artists?'” said Alice Zinnes, a light, color, and design professor at New York's Pratt Institute. …
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Groups Attempt to Influence Supreme Court on Healthcare
Justice Clarence Thomas likens all the outside political pressure that the Supreme Court is facing over its review of the Obama administration's sweeping health care law to the distraction …
Obamacare Battle Will Be a Proxy Fight of Divisions in American Politics
The Obamacare battle that will come before the Supreme Court in the longest hearings in nearly a half-century is a proxy fight between the seemingly irreconcilable differences in American …
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Health Insurers: We’ll Deny Coverage for Pre-Existing Conditions if Health Mandate Is Repealed
Health insurers and supporters of the Obama administration's health-care reform law are currently in the midst of drawing up possible contingency plans in case the Supreme Court overturns the …
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At Heart of Health Law Clash, a 1942 Case of a Farmer’s Wheat
Washington - If the Obama administration persuades the Supreme Court to uphold its health care overhaul law, it will be in large part thanks to a 70-year-old precedent involving an Ohio farmer named Roscoe …
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Birth Control McCarthyism
Climbing aboard the anti-birth control bandwagon, the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-2 on Monday to endorse legislation that would: a) give employers the right to deny health insurance …
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Texas Decision to Block Planned Parenthood Results in Loss of Federal Funds
The Obama administration notified Texas yesterday that it was officially stopping funds to the Texas Women’s Health Program because of the state’s decision to block abortion providers, including Planned …