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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Health Care

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USA Today | Study examines how doctors and patients see health care
Doctors and patients agree on many of the key issues facing the future of health care, a study to be released today shows, but that's where much of the agreement ends.
National Journal | White House Announces $1 Billion in Health Care Grants
The Obama administration said on Monday it would free up as much as $1 billion in grants to help groups, doctors, and communities hire and train health care workers as a way both to create jobs and improve health care. The goal is to experiment with ways to expand the health care work force while reducing the overall cost of services—and to get around Congress, which has stymied his suggestions for a jobs bill.

Econ Comments                                                                                                             
WSJ | ObamaCare Goes to Court
The "constitutionality" of the Obama health care law, Harvard Law School's Laurence Tribe wrote in the New York Times earlier this year, "is open and shut," adding that the challenge against it is "a political objection in legal garb."
Roll Call | GOP Sees Opening in Health Care Case
Congressional Republicans are moving to re-establish health care as a political weapon against Democrats, as the Supreme Court prepares to consider President Barack Obama's reform law on the cusp of the 2012 elections.
WSJ | ObamaCare and the Limits of Government
When asked if the health law was constitutional, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi sneered, 'Are you serious?' Now the Supreme Court has decided it's a worthy question.