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Barnes: Health law could be ‘devastating’ for Georgia

Yahoo! News Search Results for president obama health care reform — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:10:39 +0000

Roy Barnes says the new federal health reform law backed by fellow Democrats could be “financially devastating” for Georgia…

NSBA president endorses Obama’s jobs bill, presses for tax cut extension

Yahoo! News Search Results for president obama health care reform — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:57:47 +0000

(CNN) – The president of the National Small Business Association on Sunday morning endorsed congressional Democrats’ and President Obama’s small business jobs bill. The bill will “will free up a lot of credit for small companies at a very low cost of capital for the government,” Todd McCracken told Candy Crowley on CNN’s State of [...]

Speaker-in-waiting Boehner balances GOP factions

Yahoo! News Search Results for president obama health care reform — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:47:06 +0000

John Boehner has left little doubt that the president and other Democrats will face fierce resistance in the House if he is speaker, starting with a push to dismantle Obama’s hard-fought health care law.

Obama governing as promised, so what’s wrong?

Yahoo! News Search Results for president obama health care reform — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:43:01 +0000

It is hard to recall another president who so aggressively pursued the policies he campaigned on only to see his popularity plummet as a result. But such is the case with President Barack Obama .

PhillyDeals: Delaware’s Sen. Kaufman rejects complaints about Congress

Yahoo! News Search Results for president obama health care reform — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:15:41 +0000

Boy, the liberal press is steamed this summer. The U.S. Senate is an “empty chamber,” says the New Yorker. “Washington is broken,” drowned in “systemic corruption,” says Vanity Fair. The Senate took a whole “year-and-a-half” to pass financial and health-care reform, proving it is leaderless, says the Washington Post’s David Broder.

Employee health costs on the rise

Yahoo! News Search Results for president obama health care reform — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:16:06 +0000

WASHINGTON — Strained by rising health care costs and the sour economy, U.S. employers are pressing workers to shoulder the added burden alone as employees pay higher insurance premiums and more out-of-pocket expenses for their medical care.

Totally centered: U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe finds the political middle

Yahoo! News Search Results for president obama health care reform — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:05:03 +0000

For a time, during the heated Congressional clashes over health care reform, many thought the most powerful politician in Washington was not President Barack Obama, but a thin, raven-haired three-term senator from Maine.

Peninsula committee launches health reform outreach

Yahoo! News Search Results for president obama health care reform — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:51:39 +0000

A group charged with helping implement the federal health care reform legislation in San Mateo County is launching a new effort to educate local residents about how the landmark bill affects them. An initial sign of the work of the Community Health Reform Advocacy Committee, made up of 30 elected officials and…

Mental health parity act may affect your medical benefits

Yahoo! News Search Results for president obama health care reform — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:06:18 +0000

Employees of larger companies will see mental coverage given equal treatment with medical coverage. The effect on out-of-pocket costs is unclear. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, by some estimates, could affect the health coverage of approximately 113 million Americans. Exactly how it will affect them, though, will vary widely.

Common sense opposes health reform plan

Yahoo! News Search Results for president obama health care reform — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:28:28 +0000

Mr. Krumeich’s Op-Ed about “lying” opponents of health care reform (March 5) reminds me of a curmudgeon friend’s views on veracity. He never misrepresented the facts more than the situation called for.