In the Inland Empire, an economically depressed region in Southern California, President Obama’s health care law is expected to extend insurance coverage to more than 300,000 people by 2014. But coverage will not necessarily translate into care: Local health experts doubt there will be enough doctors to meet the area’s needs. There are not enough now.
A Lutheran University in Minnesota has announced they will cancel a voluntary insurance plan for students rather than comply with a recent Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate.
via University kills insurance plan for students over Obamacare provisions.
Washington – General Motors Co. stock fell 1.2 percent Wednesday, closing at $18.80, down $0.22, on worries about Europe — the first time the Detroit automakers stock has closed below $19 a share since its initial public offering.The Detroit automaker has seen its share price tumble by more than 52 percent since it reached a high closing price in January 2011 of $38.90, just after going public in November 2010. The company has shed more than $30 billion in market capitalization over the last 18 months, and now is worth about $29 billion.
via GM stock falls to new low on Europe woes | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com.
By a 7-4 vote, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a portion of the law that tells women abortion leads to an increased risk of depression and suicide. “On its face, the suicide advisory presents neither an undue burden on abortion rights nor a violation of physicians’ free speech rights,” the full court ruled.
The ruling ends a long-running legal dispute. The law also requires doctors to inform women that abortion increases their chance of hemorrhages and infertility, describe fetal development at the unborn child’s gestational age, and state that abortion “will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.”
via Breaking: Court upholds South Dakota pro-life law linking abortion to suicide | LifeSiteNews.com.