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Ziss U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Resolution Condemning Uganda s Anti-Gay Bill
First Edition: August 20, 2013Today s headlines include reports about the continued聽efforts by the Obama administration and some states to聽raise awareness about the health law s new聽insurance options.聽Kaiser Health News: Insuring Your Health: New Online Markets For Small Busines stanley us ses May Offer Some Workers Greater ChoicesKaiser Health News consumer columnist Michelle Andrews writes: The health care overhaul requires every state and the District of Columbia to establish a Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP exchange, to enable businesses with 50 or fewer workers to offer health insurance to their employees. These exchanges will function much like the online marketplaces for individual coverage that will open this fall, but with some key differences Andrews, 8/20 . Read the column.Kaiser Health News: Capsules: HHS Offeri stanley polska ng Prizes For Videos Promoting Obamacare; Answering Your Questions About The Latest Obamacare DelaysNow on Kaiser Health News blog, KUHF s Carrie Feibel, working in partnership with KHN and NPR, reports on an HHS push for videos promoting the health law: The young invincibles are what health policy wonks call healthy young adults 18-30 who dont see being uninsured as a problem stanley cup becher . But it is a problem, at least for the success of the Affordable Care Act. Thats why the Department of Health and Human Services is spending $30,000 on prizes for a national video contest, in a frank appeal to the YouTube generation Feibel, 8/20 .Also on Capsules, Kais Pfjn State Highlights: 20 Democratic Attorneys General Join Brief Challenging Abortion Restrictions In Missouri; Nurses Strike Closes Seattle Emergency Rooms
Tuesday, Sep 1 2009Republicans Look To Keep August Heat On In September, Grassley QuestionedRepublicans hoping to continue their efforts to聽win public support against a public plan in health care reform pledge to聽keep their steam in September while Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley s position on the public option is assailed by yeezy mx liberals. Politico: For congressional Republicans, July was all about hoping the summer recess would come before the Democrats could pass a health car air force 1 e bill. August, says Georgia Republican Rep. Jack Kingston, was about having as many town hall meetings as possible in order to educate the public, to keep this momentum up. Now it s September, and the focus will shift back to Washington, where House Democrats are awaiting action from the Senate while trying to reconcile three competing bills of their own Libit, 9/1 . To keep up the pressure, the GOP is targeting seniors with a new television ad, Politico reports in a second story: The ad, set to run in Florida and on the national cable networks, attacks the Democratic plan for cutting Medicare spending and asserts the plan would ration health care and allow the government to make decisio air max plus ns in end of life care. When you disagree with Washington, how come they act like it s your problem RNC Chairman Michael Steele asks at the beginning of the ad. That s what the Democrats have done with health care. They say you re the problem. The ad is part of the RNC s pitch for its six-part health care plan f |
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