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TRUST NEWS:
CU Students Weigh Costs and Benefits of Affordable Care Act
CU Independent
The Affordable Care Act is disenchanting some and enticing others. Positive attributes include information from studies like the one last February by the Colorado Trust, that estimated 19,000 new jobs will be created by 2019 by the passage and implementation of the act.
Additional Trust media coverage
OTHER HEALTH NEWS:
Nowhere to Go but Up for the Poor Lacking Insurance, Says Study
Kaiser Health News
In anticipation of the expansion of health insurance that will start in 2014 under the federal health care law, the Commonwealth Fund has begun tracking coverage of low-income Americans. The first of the surveys reconfirms what’s already well-known: the poor are starting from a pretty bad place in terms of coverage.
House and Senate at Impasse on Medicare Payments
The New York Times
House and Senate negotiators are deadlocked over how to prevent a deep cut in Medicare payments to doctors who treat millions of Medicare beneficiaries, an impasse that could threaten broader legislation on a payroll tax cut.
Government Health Spending Seen Hitting $1.8 Trillion
Reuters
Government spending for Medicare, Medicaid and other healthcare programs will more than double over the next decade to $1.8 trillion, or 7.3 percent of the country's total economic output, congressional researchers said on Tuesday.
Opponents: Congress Went too Far in Obama Healthcare Law
Reuters
Congress went beyond its powers by requiring Americans to buy insurance under President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul, opponents told the Supreme Court on Monday in arguing the law's centerpiece provision should be struck down.