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Women Will Benefit from Health Care Reform

According to an article by Wendy Pollack which was posted on The Shriver Brief, women will ...

(Reuters) - Health insurer WellPoint Inc will buy rival Amerigroup Corp for $4.46 billion in a major bet on the expansion of the U.S. government's Medicaid health plans for the poor.

WellPoint to buy Amerigroup for $4.5 bln in Medicaid play
on July 9, 2012 - 7:55am
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry said on Monday his state will not implement a Medicaid expansion or health insurance exchange, two provisions of the federal ...

Texas governor rejects two provisions of health law
on July 9, 2012 - 7:45am
MILAN (Reuters) - The United Nations' food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, has agreed on an acceptable level for veterinary drug ractopamine in pig and cattle tissues, ...

UN food safety body sets limits on ractopamine
on July 6, 2012 - 1:45pm
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Oregon will soon qualify as the third state to ask voters in November to legalize marijuana for recreational use, proponents said Friday, a move that would ...

Oregon ready to put pot legalization to voters, proponents say
on July 6, 2012 - 12:20pm
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., who disclosed recently that he has been on medical leave since early June with an unspecified condition, is grappling with "physical ...

US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. needs in-patient treatment
on July 5, 2012 - 1:40pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's healthcare law as constitutional last week, it gave a little something to his Republican foes: The court ...

Romney agrees with Obama on part of healthcare law
on July 3, 2012 - 6:15am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two top Republicans in Congress vowed on Sunday to push ahead with efforts to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare law despite the Supreme Court ...

Top Republicans press healthcare law repeal effort
on July 2, 2012 - 11:30am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Florida will not implement two provisions of the U.S.

Florida says no to two U.S. healthcare law features
on July 2, 2012 - 7:45am
RALEIGH, N.C.

North Carolina governor rejects fracking law
on July 2, 2012 - 7:40am
TUPELO, Miss.

Federal judge halts Mississippi abortion law
on July 2, 2012 - 7:30am