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The House GOP health care bill is a job killer, says a new report

Leave a Comment / health care, healthcare, Uncategorized / By max cyril

In addition to potentially increasing the number of uninsured by 23 million and being unequivocally unpopular, House Republicans’ Obamacare replacement plan could leave nearly a million people unemployed. That’s according to a new study published Wednesday by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and The Commonwealth Fund projects, which finds that the U.S. economy could …

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Employers Keep Shifting Costs to Workers Under Obamacare

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Obamacare enrollment season is here again, and people with insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces are being urged to look at their options. It’s been a year since the exchanges originally opened. Despite spectacularly incompetent website design and poor management by the federal and many of the state exchanges, most of the glitches were …

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Nurse’s Role Protecting Healthcare Law More Critical than Ever

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

It’s already October and we are in full swing organizing, educating and mobilizing for Election Day. I am sure many of you are too with so much hanging in the balance! Again, nurses find themselves in the familiar role of protecting and defending the ?Affordable Care Act. More and more evidence backs up what nurses …

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GOP Pitch to Women: Forget Equal Pay, Let’s Talk About Repealing Obamacare

Leave a Comment / Working Women / By max cyril

Heading into the 2014 elections, the Republican position on women’s votes and women’s issues is nothing so much as incoherent. They’re defensive about their poor record, so they want to rebut it, but they mostly seem to do so by dismissing every specific issue as a distraction from the real issues. When you get right down to …

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Florida Governor Inflates Cost Of Medicaid Expansion By 2,500% To Avoid Implementing Obamacare

Leave a Comment / economy, health care, workplace issues / By max cyril

Internal email messages uncovered by Health News Florida reveal that Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) is knowingly citing inaccurate cost estimates to justify his refusalto expand Florida’s Medicaid program. Though the governor’s office is fully aware that the numbers are wrong, Scott continues to use them anyway, the documents show. Florida, which has one of the …

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Wendy’s Franchise Cutting Worker Hours to Avoid Obamacare, Despite Backlash to Other Chains

Leave a Comment / discrimination, economy, health care, unemployment, workplace issues / By max cyril

An Omaha, Nebraska, Wendy’s franchise owner is joining the list of restaurants vowing to cut worker hours rather than have them qualify for employer-provided health coverage under Obamacare. That’s endangering the livelihoods of around 100 workers who are having their hours cut (managers, of course, are remaining full-time): The company has announced that all non-management positions …

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