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Muslims Are Exempt (and More 'Obamacare' Myths)
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (April 20) -- Prepare to have microchips implanted in your body. Unless you are a Muslim, in which case you are exempt. Everyone else -- you could soon have one of 16,500 armed IRS agents knocking at your door. Those and other myths are still swirling around the health care law, according to a new report by the nonpartisan FactCheck.org. One month after President Barack Obama signed the legislation, the group said its inbox was full of messages asking whether claims made by some opponents of the legislation are true. In most cases, it said, they are not. "We've seldom seen a piece ...
Congressman in Trouble After Health Care Vote
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsTYSONS CORNER, Va. (April 4) -- Rep. Gerry Connolly was among friends as he explained at a Rotary Club breakfast why he voted for health care reform last month. "We're all businessmen and businesswomen," the Democratic congressman told the well-dressed group over bacon and eggs at a private club here. "This bill is the largest single deficit-reduction legislation in American history. It's a good start in terms of sort of fiscal discipline, and it will bring down the cost of health care." Many in the room nodded approvingly. Other parts of the district are not so welcoming. Many are ...
Florida Doc Tells Obama Voters to Go Away
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(April 2) -- A doctor in Mount Dora, Fla., has posted a sign on his clinic door that instructs patients who "voted for Obama" to go elsewhere for their medical care. Dr. Jack Cassell, a urologist in the town of 11,500 people, is a registered Republican who opposes health care reform. The typewritten sign, which he posted earlier this week, reads, "If you voted for Obama, seek urological care elsewhere," and goes on to state that "changes to your health care begin right now, not in four years." "I'm not turning anybody away -- that would be unethical," Cassell, 56, told the Orlando Sentinel. ...
Opinion: Repeal the 'Jobs Killer,' Start Over
By not in system - AOL News(March 29) -- More than 130 economists recently signed a statement warning that a government takeover of health care would destroy American jobs. But Democrats didn't listen. Cliff Owen, AP House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, says "we need to repeal Obamacare." Instead they twisted every arm, struck every backroom deal and used every accounting gimmick imaginable to ram their bill through Congress. Disregarding the economists, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., promised it would create "400,000 jobs almost immediately." President Barack Obama said it would help build a "new ...
House Passes Final Health Care Bill, 220 to 207
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe U.S. House of Representatives voted 220 to 207 on Thursday night to give final approval to the reconciliation portion of the health care reform bill, sending the measure to President Obama for his signature. The Senate passed the bill earlier Thursday 56 to 43. Although Obama signed the main $871 billion health care reform bill into law Tuesday, the Senate still had to pass the package of "fixes" to that measure in the reconciliation bill. The changes were demanded by House Democrats in exchange for supporting the Senate version of health reform in a vote on Sunday afternoon. Included ...
Bishops' Spokeswoman Denounces Violence Tied to Health Care Debate
By David Gibson - Politics DailyA longtime spokeswoman for the United States Catholic Bishops on Thursday added her voice to those denouncing threats and attacks against members of Congress in the wake of the health care debate. The Catholic hierarchy was one of the leading opponents of the health care reform bill, and efforts by the bishops nearly killed the legislation. But Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh writes on the bishops' Web site that whatever the passions against the bill, they "cannot justify the verbal and physical violence that has ensued." We've seen reports of homes and offices of lawmakers vandalized and heard ...
Opinion: My Terrible, Awful Day Under Health Reform
By Tom Dunkel - AOL News(March 24) -- I confess I haven't followed the health care debate closely these past ... 45 years. I'm one of those people for whom "public option" generally connotes that awkward decision you're sometimes faced with at the end of a long night of bar-hopping with weak kidneys. Can I make it home in time to pee? Or should I duck into this alley and exercise my, uhm, public option? But I rallied at the 11th hour and did my civic duty. I sat glued to the television Sunday night as members of the House of Representatives took turns making windy speeches before casting their historic votes. ...
Who Is Rep. Randy Neugebauer?
By Russell Berman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 22) -- The Texas congressman who shouted "baby killer" as Rep. Bart Stupak spoke on the House floor is a conservative Republican who has opposed the Obama administration's agenda at nearly every turn and signed on to a proposal that would require presidential candidates to present their birth certificates as proof of their eligibility for the Oval Office. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, 60, issued an apology today for Sunday's outburst, though he said his harsh invective was directed at the Democratic health care bill and not personally at Stupak, the anti-abortion Michigan Democrat ...
Democrats Find New Ground on Abortion
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 22) -- The Democrat who helped House leaders secure the last few votes needed to pass landmark health care legislation might not have been treated so solicitously at the party's convention the year he was elected to Congress. In 1992, when Bart Stupak was running for his first term in Michigan's 1st Congressional District, Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey Sr. was denied a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in New York. Casey was the namesake for a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a state's right to restrict abortions. He accused the Clinton-Gore ...
Health Stakes: Pressure Builds on Democrats to Reverse Decades of Failure
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyWhite House pressure, union pressure, leadership pressure – no stone is being left unturned this weekend as Democrats move to a final House vote Sunday on the health care overhaul that was central to President Obama's campaign and has consumed much of his first 14 months in office. The procedural obstacle course faced by the 10-year, $940 billion package is a fitting end to the most suspenseful legislative journey of any bill in recent memory. One member at a time, House Democrats were slowly amassing the 216 votes they need to pass a bill that makes major strides toward the long-held ...
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