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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS
Week ending May 12th, 2013, powered by Nielsen BookScan. Copyright 2013 The Nielsen Company. HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Dead Ever After: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel" by Charlaine Harris (Ace) 2. "12th of Never" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) 3. "Silken Prey" by John Sandford (Putnam) 4. "The Hit" by ...
Snowe presses for bipartisanship in new book
U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe describes a scene out of a Rockwell painting: With Washington crippled by a blizzard, President Barack Obama worked the week before Christmas with a fire roaring in the fireplace in the Oval Office. Outside the window, his daughters played in the snow with their dog. Inside, ...
Businesses may get sticker shock on health care
Small business owners may be experiencing sticker shock now that insurers are revealing the rates they want to charge under the new health care law. So far, in Rhode Island, insurers are requesting premium increases of up to 14 percent for small business coverage when the Affordable Care Act is ...
Poll: Trust in government, Obama approval slip
President Barack Obama's re-election glow is gone. Congress' reputation remains dismal. And only about one in five Americans say they trust the government to do what's right most of the time, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Obama's overall job approval rating is at its lowest point since his re-election: 50 ...
Some states balk at enforcing health law’s insurance protections
Florida regulators won’t penalize insurance companies that violate new health law consumer protections that take effect in January but will report them to the federal government, according to an agreement between the state and federal officials. Citing lack of money and legal authority, Pennsylvania’s top insurance regulator hasn’t decided whether his agency can ...
$2 billion Medicaid program helps mostly illegal immigrants
During the debate over the 2010 federal health care overhaul, Democrats promised that illegal immigrants wouldn't be among the 27 million people who'd gain coverage. President Barack Obama repeated that pledge last month when he outlined his immigration plan. But while federal law generally bars illegal immigrants from being covered ...
Three health care reforms coming this year
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Health care reform won’t kick in fully until 2014. That’s when health care exchanges will roll out and employers will have to decide whether they want to continue offering health care insurance to employees or pay a fine and make them enter an exchange on their own. But ...
Health reform: What's coming in 2013
The year 2012 was a big year for the Affordable Care Act. It survived a Supreme Court challenge and another during the presidential election. With President Obama in office for another four years, the health reform law will continue down the road to take full effect in 2014. But there ...
Will health reform cost me more?
President Obama's re-election guarantees that the health reform law will continue rolling out. A WebMD survey after the election found that many readers want to know what impact the law will have on their health care costs. The answer: It depends on where you get your insurance and your income ...
Election will decide health law's future
The highest court in the country upheld most of the Affordable Care Act in June. But everybody knew it was only an overture. The law "will fall in November by a vote of the American people," Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant pledged that day, speaking for many other Republicans. Democrats were more ...
Employers expected to keep some of health law's popular provisions, even if Obama loses
No matter who wins the presidential election, most workers who get health insurance through their jobs won't see a lot of immediate changes in their health benefits. Employers will continue looking for ways to cap expenses, moving toward higher deductible policies, or placing limits on how much they pay toward ...
Medical care costs hard for young cancer survivors
Young cancer survivors often skip needed follow-up care because of cost, a new study shows. The study, which is published in the journal Cancer, found that cancer survivors between the ages of 20 and 39 were 67% more likely than young adults without a previous cancer diagnosis to forgo medical ...
Is Nicki Minaj voting for Mitt Romney?
"Nicki Minaj" and "conservative" are not two words that normally go together, but her latest musical venture suggests the out-there rapper might lean further right than you'd think. Lil Wayne's song"Mercy," from his new release Dedication 4,features Nicki rapping these instantly controversial lyrics: "I'm a Republican voting for Mitt Romney." But is ...
Medicare and the election: FAQ
Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his running mate on the Republican ticket focuses new light on the congressman's plan to restructure Medicare -- the program that provides health care to 47 million elderly and disabled Americans. Although Democrats accuse President Obama of wanting to end Medicare, ...
California races to enroll uninsured
With the health law upheld by the Supreme Court, the state that boasts the largest number of uninsured is bent on losing that distinction. Peter Lee, charged with creating California's online state insurance market, says his goal is to make shopping for health insurance as easy "as buying a book ...
After the ruling: A consumer's guide
The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the 2010 federal health care law, dismissing the challenge by states to the law’s requirement that individuals get insurance. The justices, however, did give states the right to opt out of a critical provision requiring them to expand Medicaid programs for the poor and disabled. ...
Court challenge could result in Medicaid cutbacks instead of expansion
The future of the nation’s largest health insurance program -- Medicaid -- hangs in the balance of the Supreme Court’s decision on the 2010 health law. The state-federal program which covers 60 million poor and disabled people would be greatly expanded under the health law, adding 17 million more people ...
Awaiting the court ruling, a consumer guide to health reform law
The Supreme Court is expected to rule within a week on some key constitutional challenges brought by states against the 2010 health care overhaul law. The decision will have sweeping ramifications for consumers, state officials, employers and health care providers, including hospitals and doctors. While some of the key features don't kick ...
Catholic hospital leader defends split with Obama administration on contraceptives
Late last Friday, the Catholic Health Association dealt the Obama administration a blow when it announced that it would not support a compromise plan on contraception coverage. In an effort to work with religious organizations' concerns about providing free contraception in employees' health plans, the administration had proposed that insurers be the ...
Medicare drug discounts at risk if court strikes health law
Billions of dollars in drug savings for Medicare beneficiaries may come to an end if the Supreme Court overturns the 2010 federal health law, a drug industry spokesman said Tuesday. The law provides "the necessary legal framework" for drug companies to slash brand-name drug prices by half for seniors and ...
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