For the first time since they’ve polled people on the Affordable Care Act, more Americans like Obamacare than dislike it, according to a CBS/New York Times poll. And an overwhelming majority of citizens like the tax subsidies. Most feel the law works but could be improved with changes. The change they want is different from what opponents…
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(Reuters) – A Kansas judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a law that would ban a common second trimester abortion procedure from taking effect next week, the Topeka Capital Journal newspaper reported.
U.S. House Speaker Boehner said on Wednesday Republicans have made no decision whether to attempt another repeal of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law using budget reconciliation procedures that are aimed at easing passage. Boehner, speaking to reporters after the Supreme Court upheld the nationwide availability of tax subsidies crucial to the Affordable Care Act’s implementation, said there may be other efforts to make healthcare changes. “Listen, Obamacare is fundamentally broken,”
By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Eli Lilly has won a patent case in the Court of Appeal in London over its blockbuster Alimta lung cancer drug, boosting prospects for future sales and dealing a blow to generic challenger Actavis, now renamed Allergan. Alimta generated worldwide sales of $2.79 billion for Lilly last year, making the medicine its biggest-selling product. The verdict, which reverses a 2014 decision by the English
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge on Thursday blocked the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on an abortion procedure that opponents refer to as “dismemberment abortion.”
By Aamir Saeed ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sabir Majeed, 59, had been fasting for Ramadan amid Karachi’s 45-degree Celsius heat wave when he became dehydrated and fainted Monday afternoon. It was already packed with heatstroke patients and when a doctor came to see him after 30 to 40 minutes, he was pronounced dead,” said his wailing wife Shabana Majeed, a resident of Karachi’s Orangi Town, a largely poor district.
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Barack Obama a major victory on Thursday by upholding tax subsidies crucial to his signature healthcare law, with Chief Justice John Roberts saying Congress clearly intended for them to be available in all 50 states. The court ruled on a 6-3 vote that the 2010 Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare, did not restrict the subsidies to
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans wanted the Supreme Court to side with the government on whether the federal government could continue subsidizing insurance premiums in all 50 states under President Barack Obama’s health care law, according to polls conducted before the justices’ ruling Thursday.