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(EVAN VUCCI/The Associated Press) In this Jan. 7, 2008 file photo, attorney Donald Verrilli, who argued against the use of a three drug cocktail used to execute inmates, gestures as he talks to media outside the Supreme Court in Washington, after arguments about the lethal injection death penalty. The Supreme Court on Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, promised an extraordinarily thorough springtime review of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul _ more than five hours of argument, unprecedented in modern times _ in time for a likely ruling affecting millions of Americans just before the presidential election. Verrilli, the current solicitor general, is expected to defend the law before the justices.

Justices unlikely to have last word on health care

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 7:30am

WASHINGTON — The weight of a Supreme Court decision isn’t likely to settle the contentious debate over health care in America, a nation disdainful of big government and historically unable to guarantee affordable basic coverage to all its citizens.

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Survey: Significant drop in uninsured young adults

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 6:24am

WASHINGTON — The number of young adults without health insurance has dropped significantly, a new survey finds, thanks to a provision of President Barack Obama’s health care law allowing them to stay on their parents’ plans.

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(EVAN VUCCI/The Associated Press) President Barack Obama walks from the Oval Office to the the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, to talk about deficit reduction.

Obama’s health care cuts spread the pain

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 6:28am

WASHINGTON — Health care savings in President Barack Obama’s deficit-reduction plan would squeeze future Medicare recipients, cut payments to drug companies and hospitals, and shift costs to states.

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(J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/The Associated Press) In this Dec. 8, 2003, file photo President George W. Bush greets applauding Congressional leaders as he signs into law the Medicare prescription drug benefit at the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall in Washington. Deficit hawks note the inconsistency of 2012 Republican presidential candidates who say they’ll try to repeal President Barack Obama’s health overhaul, but nod to another massive health care entitlement with unfunded future costs of over $7 trillion created by Republicans. From left to right: Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., President Bush, and Sen. John Breaux, D-La., partially obscured, and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

AP Enterprise: GOP not always against entitlements

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 5:04pm

WASHINGTON — It’s a massive health care entitlement with unfunded future costs over $7 trillion. Many conservatives are still upset at the way it was rammed through Congress.

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Insurers must cover birth control with no copays

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, August 1, 2011 - 8:25am

WASHINGTON — Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for women, with no copays, the Obama administration said Monday in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores.

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AP Poll: Repeal? Many wish health law went further

Jennifer Agiesta, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 8:38pm

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has divided the nation, and Republicans believe their call for repeal will help them win elections in November. But the picture's not that clear cut.

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Defiant Obama defends health care overhaul

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 10:30am

WASHINGTON — A defiant President Barack Obama says he'll defend his new health care law against a Republican campaign to repeal it.

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(The Associated Press) President Barack Obama speaks at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington, Monday.

Fine print hinders effort to cover young adults

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 6:53pm

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is pushing to speed up insurance coverage for young adults in their twenties -- a key early benefit of his prized health care overhaul -- but the law's fine print suggests some won't be able to sign up until next year.

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Low-cost coverage in Obama health plan not for all

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 16, 2010 - 11:02am

WASHINGTON -- It's an eagerly awaited early benefit of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul: affordable coverage for Americans with medical problems who can't get a private insurer to even take a look.

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(The Associated Press) President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden smile in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, before the president signed the health care bill.

FACT CHECK: Spinning the new health care law

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 4:28pm

WASHINGTON -- The tumultuous health care debate that brought you death panels and socialism has spun off a catalog of popular myths that will keep growing as President Barack Obama and all sides battle toward the midterm elections this fall.

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Massachusetts election could unhinge health care

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 9:27am

WASHINGTON -- Democrats prepared for the worst and hoped for the best as the fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul hung on the outcome of a special Massachusetts election that was too close to call.

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(The Associated Press) Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., talks to reporters after leaving a Democratic caucus outside of the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009.

There'll be a price for new health care benefits

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 7:08pm

WASHINGTON -- The national health care overhaul now looks like it will really happen, a compromise coming together in the Senate that should give uninsured Americans options they've never had before. But it won't be a free ride.

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