2.4 million people with Medicare to receive better, more coordinated care  Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2012.  Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today, that as of July 1, 89 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) began serving 1.2 million people with Medicare in 40 states and Washington, D.C.  ACOs[Read More…]

Washington-(ENEWSPF)- The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in a series of legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, upholding the historic law passed in the last Congress to reform our nation’s healthcare system. As part of that reform, the Act created or paved the way for[Read More…]

From the Washington Post: The most charitable reading of McConnell’s quote is that he meant that Republicans see no need to come up up with a single overarching reform plan that would cover those millions of uninsured, and instead will advocate a step-by-step approach. But even Wallace saw McConnell’s quote in far[Read More…]

By Frederick W. “Rick” Ford, writing for From an organization I came across for the first time today, Physicians for a National Health Program: Although the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the law is not a remedy to our health care crisis, as it leaves at[Read More…]

By Marcia Angell, M.D., writing for From an organization I came across for the first time today, Physicians for a National Health Program: Although there are some provisions to curb the worst abuses of the insurance companies, such as excluding people with preexisting conditions, there is nothing in the law[Read More…]

The following was released March 22, 2010, by the organization Physicians for a National Health Program. The Chicago-based organization has chapters in every state. Chicago-(ENEWSPF)- As much as we would like to join the celebration of the House’s passage of the health bill last night, in good conscience we cannot.[Read More…]

Chicago-(ENEWSPF)- Although the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the unfortunate reality is that the law, despite its modest benefits, is not a remedy to our health care crisis: (1) it will not achieve universal coverage, as it leaves at least 26 million uninsured, (2) it will not[Read More…]

A rather nuanced analysis of Chief Justice John Roberts and the decision rendered in the Affordable Care Act: Chief Justice Roberts promised this kind of balanced jurisprudence when being vetted for the Court, but has not always made good on the promise in the dozens of 5-4 cases in which[Read More…]

March 26, 2012 is the day Bill O’Reilly was interviewing Caroline Fredrickson about the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, The Affordable Care Act. Fredrickson is a constitutional scholar and president of The American Constitution Society. At one point in the interview, O’Reilly told Fredrickson, "If I’m wrong I[Read More…]

From Rick Ungar at Forbes.com: Leader McConnell, and his fellow Republicans, should read the Majority ruling before they embarrasses [sic] themselves further. In the opening paragraphs of Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion, he clarifies that the law specifically does not involve a tax… Read more here.