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Appeals court upholds Obama health care law

A Washington circuit appeals court upheld Obama health care law as constitutional, the Associated Press reports. Ref. USAToday

Healthcare and Obama

This is going all the way to the US Supreme Court now and I bet that the varying problems with each State addressing the issue in their own way is causing problems.

Obama & Healthcare Health & Special Psychology

No Neurosurgery for Elderly "Units" Under ObamaCare

A neurologist is called to the hospital in the middle of the night to treat an elderly patient who arrives with a brain aneurysm. The normal procedure would be immediate surgery to relieve the pressure on the brain. Ref. Source 3

Page 7 Healthcare and Obama

Obama Killing Women's Health Program to Fund Planned Parenthood
The Obama Administration is showing its loyalties. And it is not to women. It is to Planned Parenthood.

The Texas Legislature and Governor Rick Perry have authorized the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to continue the Medicaid Women's Health Program (WHP). The program, which the HHSC points out provides preventative health services to more than 100,000 low-income women annually, is set to expire in March 2012. Those services include contraceptives, STD testing, and screening for hypertension, diabetes, and breast and cervical cancers,

The HHSC has applied to the Obama Administration for an extension of the program through 2013, with the condition that no funding go to organizations that perform or promote elective abortions or are affiliated with such organizations. Of the more than 1,000 certified WHP providers across the state, this rule excludes fewer than 100 Planned Parenthood providers. The State has an interest in not promoting abortion when it promotes birth control. The fact that Planned Parenthood performs many thousands of elective abortions every year in its 14 abortion facilities in Texas was not lost on the Legislature. Ref. Source 3

Healthcare and Obama

If there is any one thing Pres. Obama will be known for is his position on birth control and abortion. Maybe he thinks its a cure for the economy.

Obama & Healthcare

Nearly one in three Americans thinks the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn the entire 2010 health care law signed by President Barack Obama, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.

The poll finds that 43% want to strike down only some provisions of the law and 23% think the court should leave it as it is.

More Americans say they approve of the health care law than did in November 2011 -- 43% approve today compared with 38% last year. Half disapprove of the measure today, down from 56% in November.

Also, half of those polled say they believe an ultimate decision by the court would more likely be based on the political views of the justices rather than an objective interpretation of the law.

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in the landmark case this week, where attorneys general from 26 states have challenged the mandatory insurance provisions of Obama's signature law. Ref. CNN

Obama & Healthcare - Page 7

Supreme Court Appears Ready to Throw Out Obamacare Law

The nation's highest court today held a hearing on one of the most contentious portions of the Obamacare law that is opposed by pro-life groups because of rationing and abortion funding concerns - the individual mandate.

The mandate requires Americans to purchase health insurance and the judges on the high court made it appear they are very skeptical whether the mandate is constitutional - so much so that many Supreme Court observers believe that the law is in trouble.

Potential swing vote Anthony Kennedy, a judge who sometimes sides with pro-life advocates and normally sides with conservatives in top cases but also favors Roe, appeared concerned that forcing people to purchase health insurance would lead them to be required to purchase other products ranging from cell phones to gym memberships, according to Washington Examiner reporter Philip Klein, who attended the hearings. Ref. Source 4

Obama & Healthcare Psychology Special & Health - Page 7

The Supreme Court today concluded a marathon debate on health care with justices signaling an ideological divide that could topple some or all of the sweeping reform law signed by President Barack Obama.

CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said he found the questioning by justices signaled they are ready to invalidate the individual mandate, a step he said could put the entire law in jeopardy.

At issue on the third day of debate was whether all the law's 450 or so provisions would have to be scrapped if the individual mandate were found unconstitutional. The mandate is the key funding mechanism of the law. Ref. CNN