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Obama opposes repeal of US healthcare program suspended last week
President Obama is against repealing the health law's long-term-care CLASS Act and might veto Republican efforts to do so, an administration official tells The Hill, despite the government's announcement Friday that the program was dead in the water.
US health overhaul law suffers first major casualtyRICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR AP 10/14/2011 | Feds to design health insurance for the massesRICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR AP 10/06/2011 |
 The Obama administration's signature health overhaul law, under relentless assault by Republicans, has suffered its first major casualty - a long-term care insurance plan. |  The federal government is taking on a crucial new role in the nation's health care, designing a basic benefits package for millions of privately insured Americans. A framework for the Obama administration was released Thursday. |
In Effort to Cut US Deficit, New York Teaching Hospitals May Lose AidAnemona Hartocollis The New York Times 07/12/2011 | Medicare Illegally Spent $3 Million on Viagra for SeniorsAlex Wayne Bloomberg.com 03/14/2011 |
 New York State’s prestigious teaching hospitals could lose more than $1 billion a year as part of plans under negotiation in Washington to reduce the federal deficit that the hospitals say will lead to drastic service reductions. |  The U.S. Medicare program improperly spent more than $3 million in 2007 and 2008 to buy Pfizer Inc. (PFE)’s Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs for senior citizens, government investigators said. |
Judge strikes down US healthcare reform lawTom Brown Reuters 01/31/2011 | |
 Tens of thousands of Illinois residents are expected to be affected when drug and alcohol treatment and prevention centres across the state have their budgets cut from March 15. |  A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional on Monday in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law. |
UK Government Plans Major Health Care ReformJILL LAWLESS ABC News 01/17/2011 | Questions Swirl Over Who Will be Covered in WTC Health Act NBC New York 01/16/2011 |
 Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday waded into terrain where past British governments have foundered, promising fundamental changes to the country's expensive and over-stressed public health care system. |  Congress closed out 2010 by passing a law that will provide nearly $2.8 billion in cash payments to people sickened by toxic dust at the World Trade Center. But lawmakers left a big question unanswered in the legislation. They didn't say which illnesses would be covered. |
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