A new study conducted by The Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based private foundation working toward a high-performance health care system, has revealed that the number of uninsured Americans would skyrocket were Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney‘s health care overhaul be implemented.
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3 October, 2012
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President Barack Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday to insist that the changes that he proposed for Medicare, the government-administered social insurance program for senior citizens, would benefit the elderly. In contrast, he said, the Republican proposal would “end Medicare as we know it.”
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25 August, 2012
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Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney was booed when he told
an NAACP audience that he would eliminate ObamaCare. Photo: AP.
Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney was booed when he addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Wednesday.
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11 July, 2012
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The White said on Wednesday that it had no contingency plan should the individual mandate
or the whole health care legislation overhaul be struck down by the Supreme Court.
White House spokesman Josh Ernest told reporters on Wednesday that the Obama administration did not have, and was not working on, a plan B if the Supreme Court decided to strike down all or part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The legislation’s principal objective is to bring over 30 million uninsured Americans into the system.
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29 March, 2012
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