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After credits, Colorado’s highest health premiums found in metro areaDenver PostThough Colorado’s mountain resort communities have some of the highest health insurance premiums in the country, they will be lower than those in the Denver area after Affordable Care Act tax credits are granted, according to a new analysis. and more …read more Source: Denver […]
Chris Christie’s $7.6M Obamacare mistake: EditorialThe Star-LedgerThe Christie administration allowed a $7.6 million federal grant, to be used to encourage New Jerseyans to enroll for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, to expire. That’s an expensive mistake. The money was first made available to help New … and more …read more Source: Chris Christie […]
CVS Caremark has posted this note on its website from Larry Merlo, CVS Caremark President and CEO: CVS/pharmacy will stop selling cigarettes and all tobacco products at its more than 7,600 stores nationwide by October 1, 2014. Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is simply the right thing to do for […]
Health Care Law May Result in 2 Million Fewer Full-Time WorkersNew York TimesJason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, spoke to reporters about the new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office on the Affordable Care Act, at the White House on Tuesday. Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times. and more …read more Source: New […]
Jeff Zucker, the still-new President of CNN even though he’s into his first year on the job (time flies) is poised to kill Atlanta-based CNN as we know it. Zucker told Mike Allen and Alex Weprin of Capital New York that he wants news coverage with more of an attitude and “The goal for the […]
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 16, 2013 PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY JAY CARNEY James S. Brady Press Briefing Room *See insert below 12:56 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY: Welcome, everyone. Thanks for being here, as ever. We can go right to questions because I have no announcements to […]
Van Jones beats Ted Cruz on Crossfire? True. Van Jones, who’s a well-known name in Oakland, having co-founded three Oakland and San Francisco Bay Area non-profits the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change and Green For All and wrote The Green Collar Economy (which I talked to him about in this video) […]
This White House Press Conference Transcript came from the White House at 7:51 PM EST Wednesday, October 2nd, the first full day of the Government Shutdown. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 2, 2013 PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY JAY CARNEY James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:38 […]
The government shutdown is underway, and all because the Republicans, primarily in the House of Representatives, are upset that The Affordable Care Act, called “Obamacare,” is not only now the law of the land, but active. The much-talked about Healthcare Insurance Exchange is now open for business. This seems to upset some in the House […]
This statement by President Obama on the antcipated Government Shutdown came from The White House at 6:17 PM EST: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate September 30, 201 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 5:00 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Of all the responsibilities […]
Oakland’s Michael A. LeNoir, M.D., a well-known practicing Pediatrician and Allergist in the San Francisco Bay Area, was installed as the 114th president of the National Medical Association during the organization’s 111th Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly in Toronto, Canada. The National Medical Association promotes the collective interests of over 32,000 physicians of African descent […]
President Obama gave a massively excellent speech on the American Economy on Wednesday. Here’s the video and the transcript: 2:13 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Galesburg! (Applause.) Well, it’s good to be home in Illinois! (Applause.) It is good to be back. It’s good to be back. Thank you. Thank you so much, everybody. (Applause.) […]
On Thursday, June 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court, on a 5 to 4 vote, declared The Affordable Care Act, or what some call “Obamacare,” constitutional. The lead decider was Chief Justice John Roberts (photo below), who’s view turned on the idea that the law’s provision for an “individual mandate” to get insurance or pay a […]
This seems very controversial, but will be good for me personally. In 2012 the Affordable Care Act will be enforcing guidelines that women’s health care charges will be covered by the insurance companies, ABC News reported: ” The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced sweeping new guidelines for women’s health care which […]
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee will join the U.S. Department of Health Services Assistant Secretary For Heath and Human Services Dr. Howard Koh today for a press conference to talk about a comprehensive national plan to address the viral hepatitis epidemic this space has blogged about before. Mayor Lee and Dr. Koh will also explain […]
CFO.com has reported that the Senate has passed the 1099 repeal of the requirement of health-care reform law. This is going to President Barack Obama for his signature to make this official. There was an 87 to 12 vote for the Senate passing the House version of a bill to repeal the provision. It contains […]