Health Care Reform Archives –

GOP Targets Contraception, Again!

Blu — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:36:17 +0000

“The country wants Congress to focus on jobs and the economy, not on pushing an extreme agenda against birth control,” – Dawn Laguens, EVP, Planned Parenthood Federation of America House Republicans have included a so-called “conscience clause” in the government funding bill in a plan they approved early Sunday. The House voted 231-192 on a […]

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Tough Week For The Right

Robert I. Grundfest — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:30:30 +0000

Remember the beginning of June? Lousy jobs numbers, Obama’s muddled message and the popular assumption that the president was going to lose court cases on immigration and health care? Hope and change came quickly and it’s the Republicans who are back on their heels. For now. Not only was the Supreme Court’s health care decision […]

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Thanks ObamaCare – Over 6 Million Young Adults Insured, And Counting…

Ezra Grant — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:10:35 +0000

Even though much of the Affordable Care Act does not go into effect until 2014, conservatives insist the bill is making things worse for Americans. But a new study shows that one implemented provision of the ACA is already providing millions of young Americans with health insurance. According to a study by the Commonwealth Fund, 6.6 million young […]

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President Obama Confident Supreme Court will Uphold the Affordable Care Act

Ezra Grant — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:25:26 +0000

While the Judges on the Supreme Court lose sleep over the upcoming health-care decision – they’re not really losing sleep. We already have a pretty good idea what this historically activist court will do – President Obama chimed in today for the first time with his opinion on what he believe the Court will do. “Ultimately, […]

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Skittles and Broccoli

Robert I. Grundfest — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:10:34 +0000

Every once in a while, a week comes along that brings clarity and definition to the world and enables us to find meaning in the beautiful things that make up our lives. Perhaps next week will be such a week. For the parents of Trayvon Martin, this was a week that saw the world finally […]

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Initial Report on Health Care Reform – It’s Not Looking Good

Ezra Grant — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:55:49 +0000

Based on the some of the questions asked today by the more Conservative majority in the Supreme Court, political analysts are suggesting a possible bad outcome for the Health Care Reform passed over a year ago by the Obama administration. The New York Times Reports: With the fate of President Obama’s health care law hanging […]

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Things I Know – The Health Care Law will be Upheld By the Supreme Court

Robert I. Grundfest — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:55:41 +0000

I know that the Affordable Care Act will be upheld by the Supreme Court. How do I know this? Because before it was a good Democratic idea it was a good Republican idea. I’m sure the GOP vetted the law as an alternative to the Clinton health care plan. I’m sure that Mitt Romney and […]

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Seniors Already Benefiting From Obama’s Health Care Reform

Ezra Grant — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:53:14 +0000

The nay sayers will say otherwise, but the facts are here and they’re here for all to see. The benefits of President Obama’s Health care Reform have already began to kick in, and seniors are benefiting tremendously. Here are a few of those benefits: Nearly 3.6 million people with Medicare saved $2.1 billion on their […]

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Insurance, Young People And A Healthier American Future

Ezra Grant — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:47:19 +0000

A new report issued last week by the CDC contained some very good news – young Americans are taking advantage of a provision in the health care reform, signed into law by President Obama. Before President Obama’s historic health care reform law was passed, young people were generally dropped from their parents plan when they turned […]

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ObamaCare Hater Apologies To President Obama After Cancer Diagnosis

Ezra Grant — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:36:48 +0000

She said she was “pretty mad” at the president for “ObamaCare.” So mad she was, that she changed her registration from Democrat to Independent and “blacked out the top of the “h” on my Obama bumper sticker, so that it read, “Got nope” instead of “got hope.”” But something happened to Mrs. Spike Dolomite Ward, that […]

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Next Stop For Health Care Law – The U.S Supreme Court

Ezra Grant — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:36:27 +0000

In a move some are describing as pure confidence, the Obama Administration has allowed the September 25th deadline to pass without filing their appeal to the 11th Circuit Court, in the ongoing battle by Republicans to repeal the President’s Health Care Law. Republicans have claimed that the individual mandate in the law is “unconstitutional.” Former […]

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Republican’s Next Target – American Association of Retired Persons

Ezra Grant — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:16:11 +0000

Since gaining power in the House of Representatives, Republicans have attacked just about every major group of middle class Americans it could classify. So there should be no surprise that the American Association of Retired Persons also known as the AARP is next in line for the GOP’s crosshairs. Republicans are now asking the IRS […]

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President Obama Changes Position on Health Care Mandates

Ezra Grant — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:37:43 +0000

“Instead of refighting the battles of the last two years, let’s fix what needs fixing and let’s move forward.” Those were the words of President Obama in his State of The Union address at the end of January, and today, the President signaled just how much he was willing to listen, comprimise, or adopt new […]

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Judge Rules Health Care Is Constitutional, News Media Gone Fishing

Ezra Grant — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:57:55 +0000

So the theory is true — that proponents for health care reform will get little to no media press coverage as compared to those opposed to it. A few weeks ago when a Republican judge ruled the entire Health Care Reform was unconstitutional and should be thrown out, because of one aspect called the individual […]

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Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Needs A Lesson In Honesty

Ezra Grant — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:49:46 +0000

In the heat of the Health Care battle when all manner of accusations were made against President Obama and the Democrats implementation of Health Care reform, Senator Tom Coburn accurately said that FOX News were spreading false and misleading information insinuating that Americans will be jailed if they don’t purchase Health Insurance. Bill O’Reilly, in […]

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Congresswoman Votes for Repeal, But Didn’t Know Who Pays Her Health Care

Ezra Grant — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:36:22 +0000

Apparently, not all Republicans in Congress who voted to repeal the Obama Care Health Law know that their Health Care is paid for by the Government. That appeared to be the case with Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle, Republican Representative from New York. The freshman Congresswoman held her first town hall meeting in Newark NY, and […]

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Democrats Looking At Other Options Besides Individual Mandate

Ezra Grant — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:39:59 +0000

They’re pretty certain the provision will hold up against the onslaught of the Republicans and the Supreme Court, but just in case the unexpected happens, some Congressional Democrats are already making other preparations to replace the individual mandate. One idea floating around is that of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO). According to her plan, an open […]

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Senate Votes on Health Care Repeal

Ezra Grant — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:44:35 +0000

After the Republican controlled House of Representatives approved a measure to repeal the Health Care Reform passed by President Obama and the Democratic controlled congress in 2010, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate Leader promised a vote will be held in the Senate as well. Mr. McConnell attached the repeal bill to another legislation for aviation […]

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Ezra Klein Is Wrong On This Issue

Ezra Grant — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:35:18 +0000

Steve Benen of The Washington Monthly ran an interesting piece, stating that judges who voted against the Affordable Care Act, or what the conservatives are calling ObamaCare, receive more press attention than those who voted for the bill. He then broke it down by the numbers showing that on verdict 1, which supported the Democratic […]

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Republican Minority Tries To Control Democratic Majority In Senate

Ezra Grant — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:20:32 +0000

Over the last two years of the Obama administration, Republicans went on a rampage, setting a record for the most filibusters – the process of debating an issue with the eventual outcome of slowing down or stopping the policy from being voted on – in one year since the practice began back in the mid 19th […]

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What Will A Health Care Repeal Mean For You

Ezra Grant — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:46:57 +0000

Senator Harry Reid Democrat from Nevada Republicans in the House of Representatives succeeded today in getting enough votes to repeal the Health Care Act, signed into Law by President Obama in March 2010. They are trying to persuade the Senate – which is still controlled by Democrats and led by Harry Reid of Nevada – […]

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While Republicans Promise Repeal, More Health Benefits Go into Effect

Ezra Grant — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:42:43 +0000

Just days before its Republican enemies are officially sworn into office in the House of Representatives and Senate — armed with their zeal and desire to repeal it — major parts of the new Health Care law with a total of 21 provisions, will go into effect in 2011. The areas of the law scheduled to take effect […]

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