Posts Tagged ‘uninsured’

Republican vs. Republican on covering uninsured

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s Republican vs. Republican in the latest round of political battles over health care. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people

Congressional budget analysts are now estimating that nearly 6 million Americans — most of them in the middle class — will have to pay a tax penalty for not getting health insurance once President Barack Obama’s health care law is fully in place. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Mitch McConnell proclaims that coverage for uninsured Americans is ‘not the issue’

In a rare moment of journalism, Chris Wallace gets Sen. Mitch McConnell to finally admit the fact that Republicans don’t give a shit that tens of millions of Americans are uninsured. Tweet This Post

Romney Offers Nothing for Uninsured

Jay Leno pushed Mitt Romney last night “to explain what he would offer Americans with pre-existing medical conditions so that they might retain their coverage, perhaps the most popular provision of the president’s health care law,” NBC News reports. Romeny: “People with pre-existing conditions, as long as they have been insured before, they are going to [...]

Gallup: Significantly fewer young people uninsured, but more older adults lack coverage

The silver lining in the bad Census news about poverty released last week was that the rate of uninsured young people, 18-24, has significantly decreased since the provision in the Affordable Care Act allowing them to stay on their parents’ insurance was enacted. Tweet This Post