AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
health care costs
Democrat Chris Redfern Drops F-Bomb on Camera
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News
(Sept. 22) -- Because the vice president commits the occasional verbal gaffe, does that make it alright for anyone in the Democratic party to do so? That's the excuse Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern offered on behalf of himself, at least, after he referred to tea partiers and opponents of the Obama health care reform plan as "f---ers," at a 2010 midterm elections campaign event in Ohio earlier today. "If your kids are going to graduate from college, now he or she gets health care, your heath care, while he or she looks for a new job," Redfern said. "It's in the very base terms ...
Opinion: Health Care Reform Reality Check
By John Merline - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- Remember all that talk about how health care reform would lower national health care costs, make health insurance more affordable and cut out-of-pocket spending, while expanding coverage to millions of uninsured? Turns out that that promise actually was too good to be true. A report out this week from federal health care number-crunchers at the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that under health care reform, national health care spending will be higher than if there had been no reform, out-of-pocket costs for many will go up and 24.4 million will ...
Military Health Care Budget a Challenge for Pentagon
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsNews Analysis WASHINGTON (Aug. 10) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates' vow to shut a major military command and eliminate thousands of contractor jobs to plug a "gusher of defense spending" will do little to reduce the Pentagon budget but will prove a breeze compared with cutting military health care costs. Military analysts, including several who met privately with Gates this week, said that the uproar from Virginia officials over the closing of the U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) in Norfolk and the firing of defense contractors in the Washington suburbs will pale next to the national ...
Waterborne Diseases Cost $500 Million a Year
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(July 14) -- Waterborne illnesses are far from eradicated, and they're more than just a case of diarrhea. Americans shell out an estimated $500 million in health care costs to treat the conditions each year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a study presented today at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers warned that the illnesses are often more then just a case of the runs. "These cost data highlight that water-related diseases pose not only a physical burden to the thousands of people sickened by them each ...
Health Care Law Poses Financial Pitfalls for States
By Lou Cannon - Politics DailySpeaking at the University of Iowa soon after he signed the Patient Protection and Care Act into law, President Barack Obama told an amused audience that he hadn't seen any asteroids falling from the heavens. It was his way of saying that the sky won't collapse because the United States has finally joined the long list of industrialized democracies providing near-universal health care coverage. Considering the political obstacles he overcame to obtain a health care bill, it is understandable that the president is using a time-worn tactic of ridiculing the more extreme claims of the opposition ...
Obama, Tax Increases and Debt Reduction: How GOP Can Avoid Political Trap
By Peter Wehner - Politics DailyPresident Obama is in the early stages of setting a political trap for the GOP -- one he hopes will take one of his greatest weaknesses and turn it into a strength. The weakness Obama has is that he is viewed as fiscally reckless by much of the electorate, having engineered an unprecedented spending binge even before he passed into law a hugely expensive new entitlement program in health care. At a time when the deficit and debt are more potent political issues than ever, and when those who are viewed as responsible for them are more vulnerable than ever, Obama and Democrats in Congress are ...
'Slacker Mandate': Not Just for Slackers, Political Folly to Oppose
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailySome conservatives have it in for the so-called "slacker mandate" in the new health law -- the provision that will allow parents to keep children on the family health insurance plan until they're 26. Michelle Malkin has written at least two columns railing against it. She talks about "the Nanny State gone wild" and "defining dependency up," and says Democrats would deprive children of "the timeless gift of self-sufficiency." Her symbol of choice: A giant adult pacifier. This is, to start with the superficial, bad politics. We are talking about a provision that benefits both Baby Boomers and ...
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 ...
Public Worries About Deficit, Costs Due to Health Care Overhaul
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySixty-one percent of Americans believe the federal deficit will get worse, 55 percent predict the overall cost of health care will worsen, and 50 percent believe that will be true, too, for their own families' costs as a result of the health care overhaul, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted March 26-28. The negatives clearly outweighed the positives when Gallup asked whether 10 things would get better, worse or remain the same because of the legislation. None of the 10 measures reached the 50 percent mark in terms of things that Americans thought would improve. The top two areas ...
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 ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics