Tag: President Barack Obama

U.S. women see assault on reproductive rights: poll

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About one-third of American women believe there is a broad effort under way to limit their access to reproductive services including contraception, family planning and abortion, according a poll released on Thursday. After months of election-year culture wars over Planned Parenthood, abortion and President Barack Obama’s policy on contraceptives, researchers said 42 percent of women have felt strongly enough to take some sort of action including trying to influence another’s opinions or donating money. …

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Next generation of doctors sees gloomy future

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Medical students show their support for Obama's healthcare law in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of young doctors feel pessimistic about the future of the U.S. healthcare system, with the new healthcare law cited as the main reason, according to a survey released to Reuters on Wednesday. Nearly half of the 500 doctors surveyed think the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement, will have a negative effect on their practices, compared with 23 percent who think it will be positive. …

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Poll: Idea of healthcare overhaul gets wide support

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Obama healthcare legislation supporters rally during the third and final day of legal arguments over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) – An overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system remains popular even though Americans are not enamored with the law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday. The poll found that 44 percent of respondents favor the law, and that an additional 21 percent oppose it because it doesn’t go far enough – for a total of 65 percent. The rest, 35 percent, said they oppose the law and major changes to healthcare generally. “People still very much hunger for something to fix the healthcare system,” said Ipsos pollster Chris …

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Changes in insurance tied to more ER visits

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People who either gained or lost their health insurance took more trips to the emergency room than those who had a stable insurance status, in a new study. The findings are troubling when considering the 32 million Americans expected to become newly-insured under President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law. But the results also suggest that the number of ER visits even out as a person remains either insured or uninsured for more than a year. “Eventually, you’d suspect that their (ER) utilization would go down. So it could just be a short-term surge,” said Dr. …

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Obama lawyer asks Supreme Court to save healthcare law

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Clement departs with a group of state attorneys general after the third and final day of legal arguments over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration’s top courtroom lawyer made an impassioned plea on Wednesday for the Supreme Court to save President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, capping three days of historic arguments that left it unclear how the nine justices would rule. Having peppered lawyers for and against the law with questions for more than six hours over the three days, the justices withdrew to their chambers to begin up to three months of deliberation expected to yield a decision by late June. …

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Tea Party activists defy rain to rip Obama health care law

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Man hides from rain under his sign at Tea Party Patriots rally calling for repeal of the 2010 healthcare law on Capitol Hill in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several hundred rain-soaked Tea Party activists rallied on Saturday to call for the U.S. Supreme Court to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law after arguments next week. Speaker after speaker at the two-hour protest in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol tore up copies of the law and condemned it as a threat to American freedoms and a violation of the Constitution. …

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Republican budget draws election contrast with Obama

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House Republicans unveiled an ambitious budget plan on Tuesday to cut taxes, slash spending and overhaul Medicare in a bid to draw a stark election-year contrast between their vision of the size and role of government and that of President Barack Obama. The budget proposes sweeping changes to the popular government-run Medicare healthcare program for the elderly, a politically risky gambit for Republicans who faced a voter backlash last year when they offered a similar plan. …

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