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While GOP pledges austerity, Democrats rebuff efforts to restructure Medicare, Medicaid

While GOP pledges austerity, Democrats rebuff efforts to restructure Medicare, Medicaid Health care continues to play a major role this political season. News outlets look at the parties' differences on...
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  • Legislation may enable states to offer universal healthcare - Los Angeles Times
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  • Study Shows Individual Health Care Policies Fall Short - New York Times
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    • In this Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 photo, Carol McKenna, 70, is shown at her home in Pembroke Pines, Fla. McKenna and her husband Morty have noticed that Medicare'’s “doughnut hole” is shrinking. The coverage gap in Medicare's prescription drug program, dubbed the “doughnut hole,” caught Morty in December last year. But once there, he received a 50 percent discount on brand-name drugs and other discounts on generic drugs thanks to Obama'’s health care law.

    How Obama’s health care law affects the lives of 7 Americans

    By CARLA K. JOHNSON and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press on March 19, 2012, at 9:03 a.m.
    CHICAGO — A father lost his job at a medical device company that is facing a new tax. A young woman got back on her parents’ insurance and was able to get surgery for an injury that could have hobbled her. A part-time sales woman stopped putting off a colonoscopy ...

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    User-friendly health plan explanations at risk

    By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press on Jan. 26, 2012, at 8:23 a.m.
    WASHINGTON — Consumer groups are scrambling to salvage a popular provision of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that suddenly seems to be in question. This time it’s not Republican opposition they’re worried about, but the White House itself. At issue is a requirement that health plans provide simple, standard ...

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    30 percent of companies say they’ll stop offering health plans

    By Russ Britt, MarketWatch on June 06, 2011, at 10:56 p.m.
    LOS ANGELES — Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start to kick in during 2014, at least three of every 10 employers will probably stop offering health coverage, a survey released Monday shows. While only 7 percent of employees will be forced to switch to subsidized-exchange programs, at least ...

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    Trish Riley, former director of the Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance, urges Maine to support giving the Affordable Care Act a chance to perform rather than kill it.

    Riley defends Obama health-care law

    By Lindsay Tice, Sun Journal (MCT) on Jan. 21, 2011, at 6:52 a.m.
    LEWISTON, Maine – Health care costs are too high, but Americans aren’t healthier for it, according to the former director of the Governor’s Office of Health Policy and Finance. She told a crowd at the Great Falls Forum Thursday that the federal government’s controversial health care reform law is the ...

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    Several dozen people turn out for a rally outside the Maine State House, asking elected officials to support the national health care law, in Augusta, Maine, on Wednesday. The rally comes a day after Maine Attorney General William Schneider's move to join other states in a lawsuit in Florida against the overhaul.

    In Maine, multistate lawsuit spurs rally

    By Kevin Miller on Jan. 19, 2011, at 10:01 p.m.
    AUGUSTA, Maine — The debate over Maine Attorney General Bill Schneider’s decision to join a lawsuit against President Obama’s health care reform package intensified on Wednesday even as members of Congress considered a bill to repeal the law. About 75 people gathered outside of the State House Wednesday for a ...

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    Health care supporters plan rally Monday in Augusta

    The Associated Press on Jan. 09, 2011, at 3:14 p.m.
    AUGUSTA, Maine — Efforts to repeal and legally challenge the health care reforms enacted last year by Congress are causing a stir from both sides in Maine. Nine groups advocating for seniors, labor, women and other causes plan a rally Monday in the State House to urge Gov. Paul LePage ...

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