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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
National Journal | Healthy Benefits
As they strive to prove they are benefiting communities under the Affordable Care Act, nonprofit hospitals may become the latest battleground between fast-food purveyors and advocates of healthy—and preferably locally produced—cuisine.
CNN Money | Businesses could shun Obamacare exchanges
Small businesses were no great fans of Obamacare -- but at least they liked the promise of the health exchanges. Now, some of the benefits might not appear for at least a year.
Washington Times | Taxes heat up battle against ‘Obamacare’; focus turns to partial repeals
A tax on everything from X-ray machines to oxygen tanks took effect at the beginning of this year — one of about 20 taxes and fees included in President Obama’s health care law — and has emerged as the central battleground in the fight by the law’s opponents to repeal parts of the president’s overhaul.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Heritage Foundation | Pressing States to Participate in Medicaid Expansion Is a Bad Idea
Heritage’s Stuart Butler, director of the Center for Policy Innovation, wrote at the JAMA Forum yesterday on the Obama Administration’s push for states to participate in the expansion of Medicaid.