Topic: Barack Obama

Supreme Court sets Obama healthcare arguments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oral arguments on President Barack Obama's sweeping U.S. healthcare overhaul will last 5-1/2 hours spread over three days from March 26-28, the Supreme Court said on Monday.The Supreme Court last month agreed to hear the 5-1/2 hours of oral ...

High court sets Obama healthcare arguments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oral arguments on President Barack Obama's sweeping U.S. healthcare overhaul will last 5-1/2 hours spread over three days from March 26-28, the Supreme Court said on Monday.The Supreme Court last month agreed to hear the 5-1/2 hours of oral ...

Top court schedules Obama healthcare law briefs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Thursday set the schedule for briefs to be filed ahead of hearing arguments in late March over President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul law.The high court agreed to a proposal by the three main parties ...

Obama supports less access to morning-after pill

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he supports a controversial decision by the U.S. health secretary to overrule government scientists about access to an emergency contraceptive known as the morning-after pill.Obama said he backs Wednesday's decision by Health and ...

Supreme Court to take on Obama healthcare law

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, with an election-year ruling due by July on the U.S. healthcare system's biggest overhaul in nearly 50 years.A Supreme Court spokeswoman said oral ...

Support waning for Obama healthcare law: poll

(Reuters) - Americans' opinion of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform in October reached its lowest point since the law passed in March 2010, according to a monthly poll by the non-profit, non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation.The view of the law has been roughly ...
President Barack Obama will honor gay rights advocate Janice Langbehn with the Presidential Citizens Medal at an October 20 receptionPresident Barack Obama will honor gay rights advocate Janice Langbehn with the Presidential Citizens Medal at an October 20 reception. Langbehn is among ...

US healthcare battle edges nearer Supreme Court

A second US appeals court upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul Thursday, but an earlier ruling against the plan means his signature reform is destined for the Supreme Court.The three-judge panel of the 4th US Circuit Court in Virginia ruled that ...

Court tosses Virginia challenge to healthcare law

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out Virginia's challenge to the constitutionality of the healthcare overhaul signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama last year.The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling by a ...
HHS has announced new guidance to support enforcement of an Obama memo that bans hospitals from discriminating against gay couplesThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday announced new guidance to support enforcement of a memo signed last April by ...
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