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One Year Later: What if Congress Had Repealed the Affordable Care Act? For too long, too many hard working Americans paid the price for policies that handed free rein to insurance companies with few protections for patients or providers. Nearly two years ago, President Obama signed health reform – the Affordable Care Act – into…
From The Los Angeles Times: Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and other conservatives have long favored replacing the current healthcare system. (Riccardo S. Savi, WireImage / October 18, 2011) Seeing a chance to regain power next year, GOP activists are making sure they’re ready to act on a full rollback of President Obama’s overhaul. By Noam N. Levey…
From The Huffington Post: By Wendell Potter In his quest to win the Republican presidential nomination, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is perpetuating a convincing hoax: that implementing Texas-style tort reform would go a long way toward curing what ails the U.S. health care system. Like his fellow GOP contenders, Perry consistently denounces “Obamacare” as “a…
From Rasmussen Reports: Monday, May 02, 2011 For the first time since Democrats in Congress passed the national health care bill in March of last year, support for repeal of the measure has fallen below 50%. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters at least somewhat favor repeal…
ACA works to close the gap in life quality and expectancy, the author writes. | AP Photo From Politico: By WADE HENDERSON | 3/23/11 4:40 AM EDT As an African-American man, I can expect my life to be six years shorter than that of the average American. That’s six fewer years watching my daughters…
From the Los Angeles Times: . February 16, 2011 By James Oliphant | Washington Bureau Reporting from Washington — Even as Republicans attempt to de-fund the president’s healthcare overhaul on the House floor this week, a new poll suggests that they should proceed with caution. The CBS News poll, conducted over the weekend, shows that…
Breathe easy. Headaches averted. By JENNIFER HABERKORN | 2/2/11 6:10 PM EST The Senate voted Wednesday for the first time to repeal a piece of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rolling back a new tax reporting requirement that’s been universally panned by business owners. The amendment to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement passed 81-17…
By Donna Smith WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-led House of Representatives passed legislation that would repeal President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare reform law on Wednesday in a mostly symbolic move likely to be scuttled in the Senate. The House voted 245-189 to approve the Republican bill that would scrap the law, which was passed by…
From The Associated Press: By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and JENNIFER AGIESTA Sun Jan 16, 3:16 pm ET WASHINGTON – As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the health care debate, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Barack Obama’s overhaul have subsided. Ahead of a vote on repeal in the GOP-led House this week,…
From Forbes‘ policy analyst Rick Ungar: As we get ready for this week’s vote to repeal health care reform, it’s a good time to review the substance behind the claims that are at the center of the GOP opposition – opposition that has taken shape in the bill to be introduced this week entitled, “Repealing…
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