Topic: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Bestselling books the week of 4/8/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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5 steps to bipartisan cuts in Medicare – and the deficit
Medicare is the single greatest contributor to long-term deficits. If Democrats and Republicans cooperate on waste-cutting ideas – many of which are backed by President Obama – both parties stand to gain. Here are five ways Congress should act.
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Bestselling books the week of 2/21/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 2/10/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at bookstores across America?
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Four job trends for 2013
With unemployment still high, many Americans are looking to find a job, change careers, or update their skills. Here are four trends for 2013 that can help you make smart career moves.
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Newt Gingrich's flip-flops
Flip-flopping is an old charge in the rough-and-tumble world of politics. Mitt Romney has some explaining to do about health care, and Newt Gingrich seems to have back-flipped on Libya.
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Take the CLASS Act off the chopping block
The CLASS Act, a program for disabled and elderly people included in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, is facing Republican scrutiny
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Could a voucher system replace Medicare?
If Democrats can stop defending Medicare, and Republicans allow the 2010 health law to take effect, a voucher system might work.
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Will House Republicans revolt against bill to avoid government shutdown?
House Republicans are set to put forward a new short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. Its toughest opponents? House Republicans.
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House Republicans propose new budget deadline, again: April 8
With the House and Senate no closer to agreeing on a federal budget – already five months overdue – House Republicans suggest moving back the deadline for a sixth time.
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Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of January 31, 2011
Readers write in about Congress's tea party class, the debate over 'rights' under the Constitution, and health care reform.
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Temper tantrums over the deficit
Our country's leaders are acting like children, fighting and whining about the budget
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Compromise isn't pretty -- but it's the way politics works
From the Middle East to the Ivy League, the practice of politics is about striking a balance between principle and practicality.
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Mitt Romney tries to explain ‘RomneyCare.’ Will it work?
Speaking to Republican activists in New Hampshire, likely presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressed a major challenge: The health care program he took credit for as governor of Massachusetts. Critics say it's a lot like "ObamaCare."
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Judge chides Obama for ignoring health-care ruling, urges fast-track appeal
Judge Roger Vinson has agreed to stay his January ruling that Obama's health-care reform law is unconstitutional – but only if the administration fast-tracks an appeal, possibly directly to the Supreme Court.
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Health care reform: How big is Obama's concession?
On Monday, President Obama offered to let states design their own health systems, as long as they meet the overall goals of the national health care reform plan.
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Did Rep. Paul Broun flub 'Who is going to shoot Obama?' query?
Rep. Paul Broun (R) of Georgia, who has called Obama a socialist, didn't immediately condemn a question asked at a town hall meeting: 'Who is going to shoot Obama?' Do politicians have a duty to denounce such talk?
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Why Obama 'punted' on deficit reduction
Republican critics of Obama's 2012 budget are being hypocritical.
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House's frenzy of budget cuts: defund military bands, ban White House repairs
There's still no federal budget for 2011, so House members are trying to come up with a stopgap 'continuing resolution' with billions in cuts. What to cut? House members are making hundreds of proposals this week.
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Medicare, Obamacare future? Snip, snip, snip.
Medicare and the new federal health-insurance program will boost costs that Congress will have to rein in.
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Ron Paul wins CPAC poll. Does it matter?
Ron Paul won the CPAC presidential poll, and Mitt Romney came in second – the same as last year. But many at CPAC said they “wished the GOP had a better field of potential candidates.”
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The Donald and Sarah Palin hair: a CPAC carnival of conservatism
Day 1 of the Conservative Political Action Conference – or CPAC – included Donald Trump touting himself, Michele Bachmann slamming 'Obamacare,' and Rand Paul talking about massive budget cuts. In other words, a classic CPAC day.
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Health-care repeal fails in Senate: What's the next GOP target?
The Senate rejected a bid to repeal Obama's health-care law on a party-line vote Wednesday. The GOP is ratcheting up pressure on potentially vulnerable Senate Democrats in 2012.
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The Monitor's View: Next step for the 'Obamacare' individual mandate
US District Court Judge Roger Vinson's ruling Monday on the health-care law points out the possible consequences of the individual mandate -- which he found unconstitutional. If the mandate stands up in higher courts, Americans could be forced into using preventive medicine.
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Michele Bachmann State of the Union response: where she and Obama may agree
Rep. Michele Bachmann spoke to Tea Party Express activists Tuesday night. Her speech was a lot tougher than the official GOP response to the State of the Union address, yet there were some similarities to Obama's speech.
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Michele Bachmann discusses 2012 presidential caucus, US debt with Iowa audience
Michele Bachmann was born in Iowa, where the first caucus in the 2012 presidential primary race will take place. Now a Minnesota congresswoman, Michele Bachmann took her tea party message to Iowa late last week.
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Opinion: The tea party will fail -- unless it fully embraces individualism as a moral ideal
The tea party's aim to restore America's founding ideals is commendable, but it still harbors the same moral impetus that's justified bigger government since the Progressive Era. To deliver on its promise to restore lost freedoms, the tea party must anchor its work in Ayn Rand's understanding that all schemes that sacrifice the individual to society are morally wrong.
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Opinion: To keep youth vote, Democrats should repeal Obamacare
Forcing young people to buy expensive health insurance (and subsidize the old and sick) isn't good for the Democrats, and it isn't good for young people.
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Health-care reform: How Democrats plan to crash House GOP's repeal party
As Republicans move to vote Wednesday to undo Obama's health-care reform bill, Democrats are posing a question to new House members: What would repeal mean to their constituents?
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Health care reform repeal: Does GOP really mean it?
The Republican leadership is planning only one day of debate on health care reform repeal, but some House GOP lawmakers insist that the vote is not just a symbol.
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