Archive for March, 2011
Florida Against Health Care Reform
The Health Reform Council continues to move forward because we’re confident that the courts will ultimately uphold the constitutionality of reform. Other judges have ruled in favor of reform. We’re committed to having the infrastructure in place so we can expand coverage, improve the quality of care, and lower costs.” Easy To Insure ME has the answers
Florida Challenge
Yet another challenge to the federal health care law came before a federal court in Florida yesterday, and if the partisan track record is any indication, it could prove another legal loss for the Obama administration. Republican-appointed U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson heard oral arguments in Florida Thursday in a lawsuit brought by 20 states challenging the constitutionality of the national health-care law. The case follows on the heels of a ruling Monday by a judge in Virginia that the very idea of an insurance mandate is unconstitutional. With 20 attorneys generals backing it, this is the most high profile and politically charged of the approximately two-dozen cases currently working their way through state and federal courts around the country. The case again goes after the constitutionality of mandates but also challenges the federal government on an old-fashioned states’ rights issue, the 20 states objecting to the reform law’s overhaul of Medicaid which the states argue amounted to the federal government coercing states to participate. From states rights to constitutional issues, will healthcare reform actually be implemented?
U.S. House will go after Obama’s health care bill
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.”
This Week in Health Care Reform EasyToInsureME health insurance
JANUARY 22, 2010
This Week in Health Care Reform
After months of public debate and private negotiations, health care reform discussions stalled following Tuesday’s Senate vote in Massachusetts. The Democratic Senate lost its 60th vote supermajority when Republican Scott Brown was elected to the United States Senate in the Massachusetts special election.
Health Care Reform Negotiations Post-Massachusetts Special Election
Massachusetts Election of Senate Republican Recasts Debate: Following the election of Republican Scott Brown to the Massachusetts Senate seat Tuesday night, Democratic leaders have been scrambling to revive what could now be a dying bill. The loss of the Democrat’s 60th vote in the Senate opens up the legislation to a Republican filibuster – something the Democrats have managed to avoid thus far in the debate.