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PPACA Backers: Feds Already Impose Health Mandates
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated PressPolicy watchers say the law already makes hospitals, employers and insurers engage in some types of activity.
April 01, 2012
March MadnessTo the people who cover Washington, we call it chronicling situational immorality, not since Bush v. Gore have we seen madness that could compare to last weeks Supreme Court debate over the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law.
April 01, 2012
The Deadly SmileThe health insurance industry should avoid getting into direct fights with seriously ill college kids.
April 01, 2012
NAIC Standard-Setting Rule QuestionedThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is being asked to explain the legal reasoning behind its Dec. 19, 2011 decision to describe itself as a standard-setting organization rather than a trade group.
April 01, 2012
Harder, better, faster, strongerSince losing his legs in an IED explosion, USMC Cpl Matias Ferreria has redefined what it really means to be disabled.
March 31, 2012
NAIC Standard-Setting Rule QuestionedThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is being asked to explain the legal reasoning behind its Dec. 19, 2011 decision to describe itself as a standard-setting organization rather than a trade group.
March 31, 2012
The Deadly SmileThe health insurance industry should avoid getting into direct fights with seriously ill college kids.