Friday, January 28, 2011

And now the real work begins

Some parts of the Affordable Care Act simply don’t work for small employers, a New Jersey business owner testified today at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing.
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

House republicans Start spin to take credit for HealthCare Reform

By ALLISON BELL
Published 1/19/2011

"House leaders scheduled a vote on H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act bill, to take place just as many civic-minded citizens were coming home from work and flipping on C-SPAN.

House members voted 245-189 to pass the bill at 5:53 p.m. today. All Republicans in the House voted for the bill; 189 of the 193 Democrats voted against it. "read more

Monday, January 10, 2011

Health Care Repeal Snag

January 10,2011
Reporting from Washington — The Supreme Court may not be so anxious to rein in Congress' broad power to pass regulatory laws under the Constitution's commerce clause, the key point of dispute in the pending court battles over President Obama's health insurance law.

By a 7-2 vote, the justices turned down a constitutional challenge to a 2002 law that makes it a federal crime for a felon to have body armor or a bulletproof vest.

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