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Tag: health reform
One in four Republicans unsure if Medicare is a government program
This Research 2000/Daily Kos poll sheds light on one of the strange phenomena of the health care debate; conservatives worrying that the government will...
Wary of abortion funding, Denver Archbishop supports health reform
Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, no friend to President Obama, published a column last week restating the larger Catholic Bishops' stance on health reform. For...
Free-market competition has been ‘reforming’ health care for decades
As the Obama administration appears ever-more willing to accept a health-reform plan absent a government-backed insurance option, it’s worth noting how well competition within...
Obama Grand Junction stop met with GOP health-reform gamesmanship
President Obama aimed to lower the temperature of the health-reform debate in Colorado by appearing in person Saturday in Grand Junction and delivering a speech that framed health reform as essential economic policy, tying it to the national Recovery Act and future national prosperity. Colorado Republicans, however, weren't ready to see the heat go out of the debate. They saw the president's speech as mere strategy and so strategized in response.
Grand Junction health care: Can it go national?
The Denver Post reprinted an AP article on Sunday that proclaimed: "Democrats say Grand Junction is a model for learning how to lower health...
Gardner health reform town hall not so much about health reform
State Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, is holding health-care town halls in the swing Fourth District, where he is also running to unseat Democratic U.S....
Ranking Republican repeats ‘death panel’ comments
The Iowa Independent’s Jason Hancock was trailing Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) as the senator made appearances across the state to talk about health care....
An Obama Grand Junction health-reform town hall primer
As everyone in the state must know by now, Pres. Obama will visit Grand Junction this Saturday on a swing through the west. White...
Sen. Bennet health-reform video takes Pueblo town hall national
U.S. Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet held a health-care town hall in Pueblo last week and has sent out a video and a press release...
Teabag-Free Zone: Reps DeGette and Coffman calmly discuss health reform
Colorado U.S. Reps. Democrat Diana DeGette and Republican Mike Coffman made their cases for and against the health reform plan presently before Congress in...