In an effort to overcome deep opposition to his health care law, President Obama is vowing to personally showcase a series of “milestone moments” with events like the televised question and answer session with seniors he did Tuesday. (more)
House Republican leaders introduced a bill Thursday to repeal and replace the sweeping healthcare law adopted in late March. (more)
The new healthcare law will pack 32 million newly insured people into emergency rooms already crammed beyond capacity, according to experts on healthcare facilities. (more)
Nancy Pelosi spoke to musicians and the artistically inclined in Washington DC, and instead of telling those in attendance they should get a job, she brought quite a different message: they needn’t bother working, because the taxpayers of the United States would cover their health care. Perhaps channeling her San Francisco district, Pelosi explained that without a job they would be free to focus on their talents, passions and aspirations because they wouldn’t be “job locked.” (more)
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) announced Friday that they would join 20 states suing to have the recently passed health-care law ruled unconstitutional. The NFIB calls itself the “nation’s leading small business advocacy organization” and says that it is joining the lawsuit because the “outpouring of opposition to this new law was overwhelming and our members urged us to do everything in our power to stop this unconstitutional law.” (more)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia congressional seat that’s been held by a Democrat for generations is now up for grabs after 14-term incumbent Rep. Alan Mollohan was swept out of office on a wave of voter unrest that an opponent called a referendum on President Barack Obama. (more)
In a new report, the Congressional Research Service says the law may have significant unintended consequences for the “personal health insurance coverage” of senators, representatives and their staff members. (more)
President Barack Obama, in an interview that will air Tuesday morning on the Today show, calls the healthcare reform that he has signed into law “a first step.” (more)
AMES, Iowa — Mitt Romney offered an enthusiastic defense last night of the comprehensive health care law he helped create four years ago in Massachusetts, even as he pointed to crucial distinctions between it and a similar national program enacted last week by Democrats. (more)
I received an email from a good friend yesterday, who wondered why Republicans had not done more to stop the wretched health care bill. He enclosed David Frum’s recent column blaming conservatives for the mess. Frum aruges, contrary to the actual history of deliberations: “At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision…we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, No compromise, nothing.” (more)
Republican folk hero Sen. Scott Brown is being taunted by triumphant Democrats – and slammed by irked conservatives – after the historic health-care bill he was elected to kill was signed into law by President Obama yesterday. (more)
TALLAHASSEE — Hours after congressional Democrats passed a major health reform bill, Republicans in Florida’s capital opened a broad assault Monday to dismantle the legislation at the ballot box and in the courts. (more)
The purported Democrat moderates who voted for Obama Care are really, really gullible. I have previously raised the issue of many misleading statements in the health care debate. With respect to the budget issues, these have been aired out by many, including Congressman Paul Ryan. However, in statement after statement avowed moderate Democrats appear oblivious to these points. They say the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a neutral arbiter and so life must be fine. They believe that future Congresses will allow hundreds of billions of dollars of cuts in Medicare. They believe that Congresses will sustain levies for taxes on certain high cost plans. They believe that payments for doctors under Medicare can either sustain a 21% cut or be paid for from some other source that does not add to the debt. I am not so gullible as to believe you can expand spending by $2.5 trillion from 2014 to 2023 and reduce debt. It has never worked that way. And CBO was forced to score savings provisions that will not occur. (more)
President Obama is set to begin an immediate public relations blitz aimed at turning around Americans’ opinion of the health-care bill. (more)
Of the thousands of protesters gathering on the Capitol lawn, hundreds are starting to assemble outside the balcony that extends outside of the house floor. One member came out to snap photos of the crowd chanting “kill the bill” and “Nancy,” a taunt towards speaker Nancy Pelosi. (more)
Even Hollywood showed up to the Capitol to protest President Obama’s health-care bill. (more)
The practice of quality medicine is defined by the personal relationship a patient builds with his or her doctor. Within the doctor-patient relationship, the two can confidentially decide how to treat, diagnose, and prescribe care – allowing the patients’ best interests to be number one priority. As a practicing physician for 31 years, I am privileged to have this inside knowledge. And as a physician Member of Congress I can say first hand that if Obamacare passes, quality health care will take a turn for the worse. I truly believe this bill will destroy medicine as we know it. (more)
Democrats appeared to be closing in Monday on achieving support from enough lawmakers in the House to pass a historic and sweeping health-care reform bill, though the outcome was still far from certain. (more)
President Obama’s health-care reform will live or die this week, and Democrats on Sunday had not yet nailed down enough votes for passage, but could see a path to doing so. (more)
