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Complete coverage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its future after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

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Reform Update: Big shifts seen in Mass. insurance market after rules limit consumer options
By Melanie Evans | October 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
As millions of Americans began to shop in newly created markets for health insurance, a new study of health plan choice in Massachusetts found major shifts in its health insurance market after the...
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Most healthcare provisions stripped from government-shutdown deal
By Harris Meyer | October 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
U.S. Senate leaders have agreed on a deal acceptable to the White House to end the government shutdown and temporarily raise the nation's debt ceiling, with almost all healthcare provisions stripped...
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States refusing Medicaid expansion leave 5.2M poor people without coverage, lose out on $555M
By Harris Meyer | October 16, 2013
Two new studies highlight the heavy impact that state decisions not to expand Medicaid under the federal healthcare reform law will have on low-income Americans and community health centers that...
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Reform Update: Federal exchange won't transfer Medicaid applications until November
By Steven Ross Johnson | October 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Americans submitting their applications for Medicaid through the federal government's online insurance marketplace in 36 states may want to contact their state Medicaid agencies for faster results.
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State exchanges report strong interest from young people
By Maureen McKinney | October 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A few states running their own insurance exchanges are touting high levels of interest from young people, a demographic group widely viewed as the linchpin of the healthcare reform law's success.
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Reform remains sticking point in shutdown, debt ceiling fight
By Jessica Zigmond | October 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
With less than two days before the country will reach its borrowing limit, Congress remained stalled on how to reopen the government and raise the nation's debt ceiling, with provisions of the...
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Meet Obamacare's secret (traffic) weapon
By Washington Post | October 15, 2013
HealthCare.gov has, by all accounts, been an absolute train wreck of a website roll-out. But one thing the site hasn't lacked is traffic: It saw 4.7 million unique visitors in its first 24 hours...
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Physician assistants fill in at the fringes of healthcare
By NBC News | October 15, 2013
Physician assistants are helping to fill the many holes in the U.S. healthcare system, providing tests, counseling and other basic care when a doctor is unavailable. They expect to get busier as...
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Medicare had messy rollout, too
By Bloomberg.com | October 15, 2013
There are rumblings that the glitches attending the rollout of the Affordable Care Act—along with the relentless campaign to sabotage or delay it in numerous states—mean the program is...
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