Category Archives: Health

U.S. House will go after Obama’s health care bill


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An incoming House committee chairman said today that the new Republican majority will probably move this month to repeal President Obama’s health care bill, setting up a major political battle over the president’s major domestic initiative. Easy To Insure ME has the answers

Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, agreed that the Senate is unlikely to follow suit, and Obama would doubtless veto any repeal effort. But he said Republicans would then seek to block various aspects of the law, including the requirement that all Americans buy health insurance.

“We’re going to go after this bill piece by piece,” Upton said on Fox News Sunday, later adding: “We will look at these individual pieces to see if we can’t have the thing crumble.”

Upton said a general repeal vote by the House will probably take place before the president’s State of the Union address, which is expected to be in late January.  Read more...

Blasting Obama’s Individual Health Insurance Law Easy To Insure ME


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Daniels argues the new laws place undue burden on state governments. He specifically criticizes the state-based exchange system expected to be implemented in 2014 under the new laws, and he lays out reforms to the system that he and 20 other governors have endorsed in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

“If there’s to be a train wreck, we governors would rather be spectators than conductors,” Daniels wrote. “But if the federal government is willing to reroute the train to a different, more productive track, we are here to help.”

Under the new health care laws, the states are also expected to expand their Medicaid rolls, and Daniels writes that the expansion could cost Indiana taxpayers $2.6 billion to $3 billion over the next 10 years.

“This is a huge burden for our state, and yet another incremental expenditure the law’s authors declined to account for truthfully,” he says.  Read more...

Az Reps Remain On Health-Care Fence


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When it comes to the president’s health-care reform, both of Southern Arizona’s congressional representatives are seen as “in play,” uncommitted votes that could go either way.

Which is putting both under intense pressure to get off the pointy end of the fencepost they’re perched on, one way or the other.

Congressman Raúl Grijalva, who doesn’t like the fact the Senate bill doesn’t have a public option, was summoned to the White House Thursday afternoon with seven other progressives for a sit-down with the president, who has said he wants the effort sewn up by the time Congress leaves for Easter break on March 26.

Grijalva left the Roosevelt Room roundup sounding like he’s close to voting for with the president, despite the lack of a public option he considers critical. After the meeting, he said a partial victory on health care would be better than losing everything, at this point.  Read more...

The Bill Includes Health Insurance For Slackers!


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If President Barack Obama gets his trillion dollar health care bill passed this week by the Democrats in Congress, parents will be required to pay for their unmarried kids’ health care coverage until the age of 26. And Generation Y and ‘millenials’ will be enticed to continue slacking, without a job, well past college graduation. While ski bums everywhere are cheering the news that the federal government will be forcing parents to pay for their health insurance through age 26, parents are questioning why the federal government is enticing a whole generation to stay unemployed.  Read more...