Month: September 2013

By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Spanish language version of online exchanges to sign up for healthcare insurance under “Obamacare” will not be ready on October 1 but will be ready “sometime in October,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Thursday. “The online portion of it, I believe, will come on sometime in October,” Carney said, noting that Spanish-language information and assistance will be available by telephone in the meantime, starting on October 1. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton, Mark Felsenthal and David Morgan; Editing by Sandra Maler)

LARGO, Maryland (AP) — With just five days to go before Americans can begin signing up for health care under his signature law, President Barack Obama on Thursday ridiculed Republican opponents for "crazy" doomsday predictions of the impact and forecast that even those who didn't vote for him are going to enroll.

Climate Change Is Not All Disaster and Uncertainty

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House would not agree to repealing a medical device tax as part of a stop-gap bill to continue funding the government past September 30, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Thursday. The tax helps to fund President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law and Republicans are trying to undermine the law. The White House also would reject the inclusion of a measure to approve TransCanada’s Keystone XL oil pipeline on a bill to raise the debt limit, Carney told reporters at a briefing. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton, Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Sandra Maler)

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists are more confident than ever that pumping carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels is warming the planet. The question is, by how much?

WASHINGTON (AP) — More children than ever got vaccinated against the flu last year, and health officials urged families Thursday to do even better this time around.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Individuals seeking health insurance under Obamacare through new federal marketplaces will be able to enroll online as planned beginning October 1, despite a one-month delay for small businesses, the Obama administration said on Thursday. "The individual marketplace will still open on time on October 1 with full online enrollment," U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Joanne Peters said in a statement. (Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)

BUDAPEST, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Hungarian league club Ferencvaros’s Trinidad and Tobago national defender Akeem Adams is in a critical condition after a heart attack, the club said on Thursday. Adams, 22, was taken to a Budapest hospital after he felt dizzy on Wednesday following Ferencvaros’s 3-1 win over arch-rivals Ujpest on Sunday. “Adams underwent surgeries…but unfortunately he is still in a serious condition,” the executive director of Ferencvaros Football Ltd Pal Orosz was quoted as saying on the sports daily Nemzeti Sport’s website (www.nemzetisport.hu). …

By Mark Felsenthal LARGO, Maryland (Reuters) – President Barack Obama lashed out at Republican opponents of the healthcare law he pioneered on Thursday ahead of a key deadline for enrollment and vowed that he would stop attempts to get the program bogged down in an ongoing budget stalemate. In a feisty speech at a Washington-area college, Obama defended the 2010 Affordable Care Act against Republican critics who say it is an example of government gone too far. "The Affordable Care Act is here to stay," he said. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans pulling on the budget thread can't neatly unravel President Barack Obama's health care law.

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For people with a painful cartilage condition, common pain relievers may have small benefits for depression symptoms as well, a new study hints. Depression is more than twice as common among people with osteoarthritis, which happens when cartilage wears down around the hands, lower back, knees or other joints. As many as 27 million Americans have osteoarthritis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To help manage their pain, those patients often take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, like ibuprofen or naproxen. …