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GOP Budget Proposal Would Increase Health Cost for Future Retirees
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Most future retirees would pay considerably more for health care under the new budget proposed by House Republicans, according to an analysis by nonpartisan experts for Congress that signals problems ahead for the plan. The fiscal blueprint would put people now 54 and younger in a different kind of health care program when they retire, unlike the Medicare that their parents and grandparents have known. Instead of coverage for a set of benefits prescribed from Washington, they'd get a federal payment to buy private insurance from a choice of government-regulated plans. "A ...
Congress Votes to Repeal Small Part of Health Law
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Senate has voted to send the White House its first rollback of last year's health care law, a bipartisan repeal of a burdensome tax reporting requirement that's widely unpopular with businesses. The Senate voted 87 to 12 to repeal the filing requirement, which would have forced millions of businesses to file tax forms for every vendor selling them more than $600 in goods each year, starting in 2012. The filing requirement is unrelated to health care. However, it would have been used to pay for part of the new health law. President Barack Obama has said he favors repealing ...
GOP Presidential Hopefuls Hammer Health Care
By not in system - AOL NewsDES MOINES, Iowa - A handful of high-profile Republicans who may be eyeing the White House told hundreds of conservative activists Saturday that most Americans agree with their values, and insisted that opposition to the president's health care overhaul could help the GOP make historic gains in 2012. Rep. Michele Bachmann, a tea party favorite, got the noisiest reception when she told about 500 people gathered in Des Moines that voters are ready to overturn the federal health care law and oust President Barack Obama during next year's election. Charlie Neibergall, AP Rep. Michele ...
Forget 'Death Panels' -- Poll Says Most Want Better Life, Not Longer
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A large majority of Americans say the quality of life, not the length, is more important when their days are numbered. But more than half also say the health care system should spare no expense to extend life. The seemingly contradictory views were among those revealed in a new poll conducted by the National Journal and the Regence Foundation that probed beliefs about that most uncomfortable and inevitable subject: death, and what should be done as it approaches. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images More than 70 percent of Americans believe enhancing the quality of life, not ...
Obama Says States Can Opt Out of Health Care Plan Three Years Early
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn a nod to pressure from state governors, President Obama announced a plan on Monday to allow states to opt out of some aspects of the nation's health care reform law three years earlier than previously mandated. As currently written, the law says states must wait until 2017; the new bill would allow them to begin pursuing alternate plans as early as 2014. As governors across the country have waged battles to trim large deficits -- most publicly of late in Wisconsin -- the move was seen as a concession to those leaders who have criticized the new health care law and questioned its economic ...
Herman Cain: A Long Shot in 2012, but That's Not Stopping Him
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyLITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- When Herman Cain walks into a tea party event, he is greeted like a rock star. "It's him, it's him," spreads across the meeting room. And so it was here on Thursday. When people approached him, they acted like they knew him. They mentioned his Atlanta radio show. They asked about his book, "They Think You're Stupid." They told him they are curious about his possible 2012 presidential run. Related Stories Herman Cain Would Focus on Economy, National Security as President Ex-Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain Announces Presidential ...
Piece by Piece, Obama Undoing President Bill Clinton's Actions
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsANALYSIS WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's stunning announcement that it now considers the Defense of Marriage Act indefensible because it discriminates against gay couples was more than a sign of the times. It was yet one more reason Barack Obama is the un-Bill Clinton. From gay rights to Wall Street reform, Obama has taken actions his fellow Democrat wished he could have during his presidency or which, a decade after leaving office, he regrets he didn't: Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images Former President Bill Clinton, right, said he "didn't like" signing the Defense of ...
House Budget-Cutters Approve Slashing $61 Billion From Current Spending
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyHouse Republicans, in a marathon all-night session, cut nearly $61 billion from the 2011 federal budget Saturday with final passage coming just after 4:30 a.m. The package, approved in a 235-189 party-line vote, included measures that would end federal funding of Planned Parenthood and block money for implementation of the health care law. The budget bill now heads to the Democratic-controlled Senate, which is expected to push back against the reductions -- most of them coming from domestic programs. But on Saturday in the U.S. House, the GOP's large, conservative freshmen class, which ...
Polls Show Public May Not Know What It Wants on Health Care Law
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