Opposition to health care reform has sharply declined in recent weeks, according to a new survey from polling company Rasmussen Reports.
Colorado House Republicans Tuesday introduced a bill to enable Colorado to opt out of participation in the Affordable Care Act. The bill would cause Colorado to join in an interstate compact with several other states that do not want to participate in the federal health care plan.
A federal judge in Florida today ruled that federal health care reform passed by congress last year is unconstitutional. Specifically, he ruled that individuals cannot be forced to buy health insurance, which would be mandated in 2014.
Today, Rep. Scott Tipton spoke in favor of repealing health care reform, and Rep. Jared Polis calls the repeal act the most expensive one-page bill ever.
Constitutional interpretation can lead the unpracticed down surprising and even dark rhetorical alleyways. It happens at dinner tables and in barrooms all the time. It happened to controversial Republican Iowa Rep. Steve King today on Capitol Hill at a Rules Committee hearing on the GOP plan to repeal the healthcare reform law. He ended up telling Colorado Rep. Jared Polis that the law is unconstitutional because, for instance, it forces uninsured women who deliver babies in garbage cans to buy health insurance. Polis, aghast, searched for words. No one would have faulted him for saying “Well, yes, exactly!”
Governor-elect John Hickenlooper today announced that State Sen. Al White will be director of the Colorado Tourism Office and Joan Henneberry will be the Healthcare Exchange planning grant project director. White, from Winter Park, served eight years in the Colorado House of Representatives before he was elected to the Colorado Senate two years ago.
Our Fiscal Security, a partnership of progressive policy organizations Demos, the Economic Policy Institute and the Century Foundation, unveiled a deficit reduction plan Monday, devoting more attention to revenue increases than other proposals and keeping an…
From the perspective of many conservatives, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is doing himself and Republicans a lot of harm by fighting Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposal to ban requests for earmarks among Republicans in next year’s Senate. The first reason,…
In the wake of the contentious health care reform legislative battle waged in the media and on the political stump most of last year and this year, health insurance premiums are rising in Colorado. State Insurance Commissioner Marcy Morrison has been fielding phone calls from angry consumers and wants to be clear: Insurance companies are hiking rates just as they have been doing consistently for years and not because of “Obamacare.”
Thursday, a federal judge in Michigan became the first to rule on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care reform package. Judge George C. Steeh ruled that requiring individuals to buy health insurance is constitutional.
Do you know where to vote on Election Day? Do you know what to bring with you? Get comprehensive voter information for your state here.
rss