Weekly Address: Two Major Reforms on Health Care & Higher Ed

The President looks back on a week that saw the passage of two major sets of reforms: one putting Americans in control of their own health care, and one ensuring student loans work for students and families, not as subsidies for bankers and middlemen.

(reprinted from www.whitehouse.gov)

What Others Are Saying About The Health Care Overhaul Bill

As you probably know by now, the House has passed the Senate Health Care Overhaul bill and the President will be signing it into law shortly.
Kaiser Health News has done a great job of providing links to news articles over the past day regarding the House passage of the health care bill.  In an effort [...]

Weekly Address: Health Reform Will Benefit American Families and Businesses This Year

In his weekly address, President Barack Obama said that Congress owes the country an up-or-down vote on health reform and he described how more American families will have more control over their health care this year after health reform passes.  The proposal the President has put forward includes tax credits for small businesses to purchase [...]

Weekly Address: Premiums, Profits, and the Need for Health Reform

President Barack Obama used his weekly address to call on Democratic and Republican leaders to attend next week’s health care meeting in good faith to find reforms that work for American families and small businesses.  With several health insurance companies announcing steep hikes in their rates – from 10 to over 30 percent – it [...]

Republicans want Oompa Loompa NOW

Much like Veruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, who has everything she could possibly want and hope to get, the Republicans want their Oompa Loompa now. Its not good enough that their core “common-sense” ideas are included in the Senate health care bill, they want to start over.  At some point, it will [...]

Obama: State of the Union

In his State of the Union Address, the President laid out an agenda attempting to attack one problem from every conceivable angle: the terrible squeeze felt by America’s middle class.  Fundamentally, that means prying government away from special interests and dedicating it to measures that put Americans to work and lay the foundation for a [...]

Weekly Address: President Obama Outlines Benefits of Health Reform

In his weekly address, President Barack Obama discussed the benefits of health reform that Americans will receive in the first year, and how reform will help build a new foundation for American families.  After reform becomes law, uninsured Americans with a pre-existing condition will be able to purchase affordable coverage, insurance companies will be prohibited [...]

Senate Passes Health Care Bill

The Senate’s version of the Health Care Bill – H.R 3590 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – passed this morning with a 60-39 vote.  Fifty-eight Democrats and two Independents voted “yes,” while Republicans unanimously voted “no”. Senator Jim Bunning (R, KY) did not vote.
The Senate bill would require all Americans to obtain health insurance, [...]

President Obama: 2009 In Review

In 2009, the biggest news regarding President Obama’s Administration’s first year has been that there is so much misinformation out there, that no one seems to know exactly what the Administration has or hasn’t gotten accomplished this year.
For example, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that set aside $700 billion for fending off the financial [...]

Its 1am – do you know where your Senators are

In the wee hours of the morning, 1:25a.m. to be exact, the Senate held a vote on the health care bill.  In a 60-40 vote, every single Republican in the Senate voted to sustain a filibuster and all 58 Democrats and the two Independents in the Democrat caucus voted to defeat a Republican filibuster.  This [...]

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