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The election is finally over, and President Obama’s victory and upcoming second term in office mean that his signature Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, will be fully enacted by 2014. The implementation of the law will mean big changes and potentially big savings for Medicaid, the nation’s public health insurance plan for low-income families. The biggest change is the most obvious — Medicaid rolls could be expanded by as many as 17 million people across the …

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, hangs in jeopardy this election season. If reelected, President Barack Obama will see the law through to its full implementation in 2014. Challenger Mitt Romney has pledged to repeal Obamacare on the first day of his presidency if elected, and replace it with some yet-to-be-specified alternative. The health care law includes a number of consumer-friendly policies: Allowing children to stay on their parents’ health plan up to …

Sticking it to waiters and waitresses who are already underpaid and overworked is turning out to be business as usual for Darden Restaurants Inc., which owns Olive Garden and Red Lobster. After being sued in September by workers alleging they are being shorted on overtime and even minimum wage, the company reportedly announced earlier in October that it plans to move more of its beleaguered staff from full- to part-time status in order to avoid having to pay for their …

Discover Defrauds Customers, Must Pay $200 Million You may get calls from credit card companies asking whether you’d like to hear about additional products they offer. If you said yes to a call from Discover between December 2007 and August 2011, you may be in for a little extra cash. Discover has settled deceptive marketing charges brought by the FDIC. The bank was accused of tricking customers into paying for extra credit protection programs. Find Out More…   Avoid Defaulting …

Ah, the presidential campaign — an opportunity for President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney to engage in a high-minded debate about ideas of substance and how to best lead America to a prosperous future. Or, spend all their time telling the public that the other is shockingly unfit for office and a terrible person, to boot. Both the president and his challenger have been maddeningly unspecific on many of their substantive policy proposals and what paths they would …