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Tag: Health Care Reform
Progressive groups unveil deficit-reduction plan
Our Fiscal Security, a partnership of progressive policy organizations Demos, the Economic Policy Institute and the Century Foundation, unveiled a deficit reduction plan Monday,...
New Order: McConnell faces off with DeMint on earmarks
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...
‘Obamacare’ not the cause of Colorado rate hikes
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."
Judge rules that health care reform is constitutional — could effect...
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....
In debate, Garnett calls Suthers ‘attorney general for the tea party’
Candidate debates can be boring. Once in awhile, though, the fur flies.
That was the case yesterday in Loveland, according to the Reporter Herald, when...
Just business: Five Colorado insurers won’t offer individual child coverage
Parents who don't have health insurance buy individual policies for their kids but five health insurance companies in Colorado will no longer offer that...
The partial return of the public option
Four months after President Barack Obama enacted the Affordable Care And Patient Protection Act, House Democrats have resurfaced a top liberal priority buried near the end of the grueling year-long battle over health care reform: the public option.
Lamborn rallies opposition to alleged ‘Obamacare’ abortion coverage
Fifth District Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn sounded a warning note to anti-abortion Coloradans Thursday detailing his concerns that "Obamacare," as he continues to call...
Health reform won’t seriously ding corporate profits
As conservatives scream from the rafters about the elimination of a business tax deduction for retiree benefits in the Democrats’ health reform law, The...
Bachmann ‘government takeover’ talking points refuted by CBS
As the Minnesota Independent reports, Tea Party Congresswoman Michele Bachmann appeared on Face the Nation and railed against the "government takeover" of the economy...