Modern healthcare
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Though President Barack Obama has rarely made healthcare references in his State of the Union addresses, health policy experts are hoping he changes that strategy this year. "The question is: Will he say anything? You would hope that he would, given that that was the major issue he started his presidency with," says Dr. James Weinstein, left, of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system.
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The Obama administration's plan that would give many illegal immigrants a path to stay in the U. S. legally leaves out one thing: federally subsidized access to health insurance coverage. "I think that gives immigrants a mixed message about how welcome they will be," says Sonal Ambegaokar, left, of the National Immigration Law Center.
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Despite an announcement that millions of uninsured Americans would soon qualify for "affordable, quality healthcare coverage," a top insurance industry executive says states face daunting odds in meeting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's deadlines. The ability of federal and state health insurance exchanges to begin enrolling millions of consumers in nine month "seems challenging," says Stephen Hemsley, UnitedHealth Group's CEO.