Election 2012

Warren: Affordable Care Act Showing Results for Massachusetts Families

Warren: "This change in the law will give women greater control over their health care decisions and ultimately will save lives."

The following is a press release from Elizabeth Warren's U.S. Senate campaign: As two important provisions of the Affordable Care Act reform go into effect Aug. 1., U.S. Senate candidate and consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren praised the positive benefits that the health care reform law is providing to women and families across the Commonwealth. "By ensuring that insurance companies cover key preventive health services free of charge, the Affordable Care Act is already providing real benefits to women and families here in Massachusetts and across the country," said Warren. "Scott Brown and the Republican Party want to tear up the health care reforms, end these benefits, and spend more time refighting political battles. This is wrong, and I…

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Poll: Should the Supreme Court Repeal Obamacare?

Legal cases against the Affordable Care Act will go to the Supreme Court on Monday.

Monday's Supreme Court hearings on the Affordable Care Act will pit the Obama administration against 26 states and several private parties hoping to challenge the congressional power asserted in the legislation critics derisively call "Obamacare." Much of the planned six hours of oral arguments will aim at the act's "individual mandate," which requires each U.S. citizent to purchace healthcare, the Huffington Post reports. "The Obama administration says the mandate falls squarely within Congress's ability to regulate national markets. The challengers contend that the mandate is an unprecedented encroachment on state power and personal liberty," The Huffington Post reported.  What do you think? Should Congress repeal the Affordable Care Act…

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Colossus

10:54 am on Saturday, March 31, 2012

Me not having health insurance because of an illness doesn't have the potential to kill twenty people on the freeway; my automobile that just blew a tire on the freeway does.   more ›

Discussion on Medicare, Affordable Health Care at Callahan Center Friday

U.S. Health and Human Services Regional Director Christie Hager and Massachusetts Secretary of Elderly Affairs Ann L. Hartstein will meet with Framingham Seniors at the Callahan Center Friday, July 29 at 10:30 a.m.

Press release from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: U.S. Health and Human Services Regional Director Christie Hager and Massachusetts Secretary of Elderly Affairs Ann L. Hartstein will meet with Framingham Seniors at the Callahan Senior Center Friday, July 29 at 10:30 a.m. Hager and Hartstein will discuss Medicare and the Affordable Care Act. Hager will specifically address the new benefits provided by the Affordable Care Act and answer senior’s questions about their Medicare, the strength of Medicare going forward and the new preventive benefits provided by the Affordable Care Act. Hartstein will discuss the relationship of the Affordable Care Act to state programs.   Afterwards, both will take questions from participants…

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