Town meeting attendee confronts GOP freshman over health reform repeal

Angry senior confronts Republican lawmaker over health care repeal (Video)
In the August of 2009 as Congress was considering the Health Care Reform Bill Democratic lawmaker returned home to face angry crowds at town halls.  The videos of the town halls became something of a Cable News sensation, especially on Fox News.  Now Republicans have a majority in the House of Representatives, and they plan to hold a vote to Repeal the Affordable Care Act that became law last March.  However, at least one Republican Congressman has now faced an angry town hall par...

Don McNay: The Opening Round in the Battle to Implement Health Care Reform
A recent battle in my home state of Kentucky gives a good preview of how the national battle to implement Health Care reform is going to go. Kicking and screaming. On September 23, the first part of Health Care reform hit the streets. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides that health Insurance Companies offering "child only" policies cannot deny coverage to a child due to any pre- existing condition present in that child. A 10-year old with a ton of severe ailments can pur...

Another Way the GOP Could Go About Repealing Health Care Reform
I’ve been saying that the ACA Repeal vote now scheduled in the House for next week is basically a symbolic payoff to Tea Partiers and other core Republicans, who the leadership hopes can be bought off with symbols since their real goal—full Repeal of ACA—is unrealistic in the current Congress. Note that there was another track Republicans could have taken. Rather than go for a full Repeal that will be dead on arrival in the Senate, Republicans could have targeted the least pop...

Ohio attorney general: Insurance requirement like food police
If the Federal Government can require people to buy Insurance, nothing can stop them from forcing people to exercise 45 minutes a day or eat spinach daily, new Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) told Fox News on Friday. "Maybe we should do all those things, but I don't think any of our viewers want to see the Federal Government involved in that," DeWine said as he explained why Ohio is joining a multi-state challenge to the law. "If they can do this there is no stopping what the federa...

Dora Calott Wang, M.D.: 5 Health Reform Benefits to Act on Today
While Washington fusses and grandstands about Health Care reform, we as individuals can vote with our actions and dollars. In America's free Market Economy, our collective choices will significantly impact the nation's Health Care system. Here are five actions each of us can take today, thanks to new benefits made available by the landmark Affordable Care Act. 1.Pick up the phone and schedule a free annual exam, and routine preventive tests for your age group (such as Mammograms and colonosco...

Healthcare repeal will bring abortion debate to the forefront
An intense debate on Federal Funding for Abortions is expected to begin shortly as Congress resumes debate on repealing the healthcare law. The House is scheduled to vote on a Repeal bill next week, after a one-week hiatus following last weekend's shooting in Tucson that left six people dead and gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have since called for the political Rhetoric to be toned down, but a looming showdown over abortion may make that...

Regulations, not repeal votes, will decide the future of the health-care law
The Repeal vote on the floor of the House isn't even close to the most important thing happening to the health-care law right now. For that, you'd need to look across town, to where the Institute of Medicine is discussing how the secretary of Health and Human Services should define the term "essential health benefits." This is the judgment that underlies the whole project. If you're an individual and you have coverage that meets essential health benefits, you don't need to worry about the indivi...

Pro-reform groups to organize against repeal vote
A number of organizations supporting Healthcare Reform will gather in the Capitol on Wednesday to oppose a House Bill that would Repeal the law. Families USA, which is organizing the event in the Capitol Visitor Center, said it will feature groups representing individuals with Health Problems and disabilities, seniors, Children, women, care providers, Small Business owners, Minorities and consumers. A spokesman for the organization said the event will focus on the popular consumer protections...

Healthcare Industry Moves Against Repeal
Suzy Khimm reports: The health Insurance Industry turned against the Affordable Care Act before the law passed, arguing that the onerous new regulations and reforms would make their business unsustainable. But despite its vocal objections, industry insiders now appear to believe that reform will help Health Insurers and other big stakeholders. Politico reports that industry investors are becoming more confident that President Barack Obama’s Health Care initiative won’t massively d...

Turning up the rhetoric to 11
Following the tragedy in Tucson, the leftist media has been pushing the meme that “toxic Rhetoric” in politics needs to be toned down.  I (dis)respectfully disagree.  Conservatives will not be silenced by radicals who would love nothing more than for opposition to be muzzled to allow the Left to continue their march to socialism, unabated and uninterrupted. During my morning pass through Twitter, I caught two key pieces on this topic from the American Spectator.  In “Defen

Evil Health Insurance Corporations Love ObamaCare
By RightKlik What do Health Insurance executives think of ObamaCare? This will upset principled Activists at both ends of the political spectrum (and about 60% of the adult population): As Republicans push forward on repealing health reform, planning the law’s demise, a different conversation is happening among thousands of Health Care investors gathered in San Francisco for this week’s J.P Morgan Health Care Conference: how to capitalize on health reform’s new business oppor...

Americans Want Changes to Obama's Healthcare Reform
Continuing to press for Repeal of the nation’s new healthcare law keeps the Republicans in sync with a vast majority of the U.S. electorate. According to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, released Friday, voters "overwhelmingly want to see last year’s healthcare law changed." What they want done, however, is not as clear. The Rasmussen survey finds that, of the 1,000 likely U.S. voters queried, 20 percent want the law repealed "and nothing done ...

War of the talking points!
Yesterday I reported here that House Dem leaders have settled on the phrase they will use to brand the House GOP's push to Repeal health reform: "The Patient's Rights Repeal Act." But some Democrats in the House -- being Democrats -- are already beginning to question this talking point, House aides tell me. They are circulating another idea: "No Care." With both sides gearing up for a major, protracted standoff over Repeal that could drag on for months or even years, some Rank and File House D...

House GOP sets new date to vote on health care law repeal
House Republicans say they will vote to Repeal the Health Care reform law on Wednesday, after taking a week off to show respect for those injured and killed in Arizona last weekend. "This week, our thoughts and prayers are with Congresswoman Giffords, her family, the Victims of this inexplicable tragedy and their families," said Laena Fallon, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's spokeswoman. However, she said Congress needed to get back to fighting for the Repeal of the law. "Americans have legit...

House vote to repeal health reform officially set for Wednesday
House Republicans officially set their vote on Legislation repealing Healthcare Reform for Wednesday. Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) released his schedule for next week on Friday, which has the GOP-controlled House starting debate on its Legislation on Tuesday before a Wednesday vote. On Thursday, the House will debate and vote on Legislation to instruct committees to develop alernatives to replace the reform law. The vote represents somewhat of a return to normalcy in the House since al...

I cant believe Im saying this
… but I agree with Rep. Bob Marshall. In a op-ed published in The Virginian-Pilot today, Marshall discussed the need for his bill, HB1506. Most of you are familiar with some of the issues in related to Foreclosures. Part of the problem relates to the difficulty in determining who actually holds the Mortgages. Marshall explains: With no legislative or judicial authority, the Big Banks created the Mortgage Electronic Registration System, or MERS, as its own system of land records, bypassin...

Abortion rights group sees tough political terrain
An Abortion rights group gave 19 states failing grades for women’s reproductive rights policies and warned that Republican gains in 2010 could hurt its agenda in a new report card released Friday morning. “It is clear that the results of the 2010 Elections could pose serious threats to the progress we celebrated in previous years' reports,” wrote NARAL president Nancy Kennan. “Some of our key pro-choice champions in Congress and in the states are not returning to their positions.&

Dont Worry, Private Health Insurers Will Be Just Fine
In case you were worried that the new Health Care law, the so-called “government takeover of health care,” was going to hurt the profits of the completely unnecessary private Health Insurance middlemen, don’t be. From Politico: [I]nvestors say they’re increasingly optimistic on Health Insurers’ future for two crucial reasons: regulations released this year have been relatively industry-friendly, increasing stability, and the health reform’s new business opportunities ar

Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller scares more businesses away from Philadelphia
One of the biggest problems facing the City of Philadelphia is the fact that businesses are leaving in droves and no new businesses want to come here. Most of that has to do with the fact that our business taxes are some of the highest in the region and that businesses in this City are penalized for being successful. So how do you create a friendlier business environment and entice small businesses and big chains to come to Philadelphia? Well, you don't ask them to change their hiring practices,...

House Republicans Plan Next Moves At Retreat
The shooting attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords cast a pall over Capitol Hill this week. House Republicans postponed their vote to Repeal the Health Care law and there were calls for a less rancorous tone in congressional politics. Next week, Republicans will return to their legislative agenda. And in Baltimore on Friday at their annual retreat, they talked about how they will do it. Still, there were plenty of reminders of the past week's events at the retreat, starting with the large numbers of...

Bill passes committee to remove Pinnacol's tax-exempt status
The legislature's Joint Budget Committee is moving a bill forward that would take away almost all of the state tax-exempt status of Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado's quasi-governmental worker's compensation Insurance fund. The budget panel's unanimous approval of the Legislation follows recent reports detailing lavish spending by Pinnacol executives and Board Members at the tony Pebble Beach resort in California. The details of that $300,000-plus trip, ranging from thousands of dollars spent on win...

Congress Ready To Vote On Health Care Repeal
(Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will resume action next week on repealing President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare overhaul, a House Republican spokesman said on Thursday. The House had been expected to act this week on the Repeal bill, but the vote was postponed after a Shooting Spree in Arizona killed six people and critically wounded U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. “As the White House noted, it is important for Congress to get back to work, and to...

Health-Care Industry <3s Reform?
The health Insurance Industry turned against the Affordable Care Act before the law passed, arguing that the onerous new regulations and reforms would make their business unsustainable. But despite its vocal objections, industry insiders now appear to believe that reform will help Health Insurers and other big stakeholders. Politico reports that industry investors are becoming more confident that President Barack Obama's Health Care initiative won't massively disrupt the health industry and is l...

Will Ariz. Shooting Change Health Reform Rhetoric?
The shooting in Arizona last weekend has heightened calls for civility in political discourse, but many are questioning whether the polarized political climate will resurface as Republicans prepare to bring the Controversial Health Care Repeal bill to the floor. More Video ...

Health Repeal Vote Set for Next Week
The Hill reports: The House will vote next week on a bill to Repeal the Healthcare Reform law, a spokeswoman for Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) confirmed Thursday afternoon. The new Republican majority had scheduled a vote for yesterday, but it was delayed after the shooting tragedy in Arizona over the weekend. A Cantor spokeswoman confirmed the vote Thursday afternoon. “As the White House noted, it is important for Congress to get back to work, and to that end we will resume thoughtful...