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From The New York Times: Editorial Board– June 21, 2011 Leading Republicans — after proposing to gut Medicare — are still trying to pose as the program’s saviors. How cynical can they get? At the recent Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota warned that health care reform will take $500…
From The Washington Post: By Ezra Klein | 04:59 PM ET, 06/09/2011 By Akira Hakuta/The Washington Post “The safer Medicare is, the more endangered Medicaid is,” sighs Sen. Jay Rockefeller. “Reading the tea leaves and being in a lot of meetings over the last couple of days, I worry that people are saying, ‘great, now…
From The Herald: U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C. Jamie Self– Thursday, Jun. 09, 2011 LAKE WYLIE — The debate over how to get the nation’s fiscal house in order – and whether all will carry a fair share of the burden – came to northern York County on Wednesday night at a town hall meeting hosted…
From The Hill: By Sam Baker and Julian Pecquet – 06/08/11 03:29 PM ET Judges in the highest-profile challenge to the healthcare reform law appeared skeptical of the federal government’s defense, according to people who attended oral arguments in the case Wednesday. In nearly three hours of questioning, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S.…
From Politico: The president’s plan would have an independent panel recommend Medicare spending cuts. By JENNIFER HABERKORN | 6/8/11 4:55 AM EDT One of the key provisions in President Barack Obama’s health care reform law — his preferred method for getting Medicare costs under control — is facing a groundswell of opposition from unexpected corners.…
From Politico: Medicaid faces numerous GOP efforts to slash program spending. | AP Photo By JASON MILLMAN | 6/5/11 6:59 PM EDT Since Rep. Paul Ryan introduced his budget blueprint in April, Democrats have held countless news conferences and issued even more press releases condemning the plan — as they say — to eliminate, end…
From Politico: Judges sharply questioned whether Virginia has a right to sue the federal government. | AP Photo . By JENNIFER HABERKORN | 5/10/11 7:49 PM EDT RICHMOND, Va.— The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals peppered the health reform law’s challengers with intense rounds of questioning on Tuesday, suggesting that it could rule against both…
The Justice Department said it would quickly appeal — as Judge Roger Vinson said it must. | AP Photo From Politico: By JENNIFER HABERKORN | 3/3/11 12:38 PM EST U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson put the health care reform law on a fast track to the Supreme Court on Thursday — giving the Obama administration…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UGQIkYEBPo&feature=player_embedded] Former Reagan Solicitor General Charles Fried gave dispassionate testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday, right before Senate Democrats voted down repeal of the Affordable Care Act, articulating why he is “quite sure that the health care mandate is constitutional.”
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