Tag Archives: President Obama

Health Reform To Affect Students

April 15, 2010 – 12:27 pm

According to www.healthreform.gov, approximately 30 percent of young adults are uninsured. This catastrophic number is expected to fall when The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is enforced. The new health care bill President Obama signed into law this past March, effective in the next six months, will benefit college-aged young adults in many ways. [...]

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Health Care Reform In YOUR State

March 24, 2010 – 1:10 pm

Health Reform has made its way to law in a one thousand some page document… so what does it actually say? CBS Capital Hill Producers Jill Jackson and John Nolen break down the basics in their report Health Care Reform Bill Summary: A Look At What’s in the Bill. According to their report the new [...]

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Health Care Reform

March 23, 2010 – 4:12 am

The health care reform bill should be on the President’s desk today, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, after passing through the house late Sunday night.  President Obama has announced that he plans to sign the bill when it reaches his desk. He celebrated the passage of the bill through remarks given at the White House, “We [...]

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Health-care tax continues to raise questions!

January 13, 2010 – 12:16 pm

As Congress gets closer to imposing a new tax on high-cost health insurance plans, questions are still being raised about who will be hit the hardest and whether or not the tax will limit health-care spending as much as proponents say. The House legislation proposed would implement an income tax surcharge on families earning more [...]

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Senate passes reform bill

December 30, 2009 – 8:48 am

Health care reform recieved the go ahead from the senate yesterday when the bill was passed. Now the nation must wait for the senates form of the bill to merge with the House of Representatives version. Due to the holiday, the merge has been postponed until after the new year. Once the bill has been [...]

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