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Haley Barbour's Washington Week: Jabs at Obama, Romney in 2012 Preview
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyMississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he won't decide on a presidential run until next month, but that didn't stop him from road-testing a 2012 campaign message all over Washington this week. As Newt Gingrich dithered over whether to announce that he might start to raise money to possibly explore a White House bid and Mike Huckabee made strange references to President Barack Obama's "Kenyan" childhood, Barbour was putting down markers on energy, jobs, health care and foreign policy. The former chairman of the Republican National Committee and the Republican Governors Association has had access ...
Ideological Smackdown in the Courts Will Determine Fate of Health Care Law
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyWith all the conservative legal challenges to the new health care law, at least one federal judge was bound to declare the whole thing unconstitutional. It's only one ruling, but if you're a supporter of the law, it feels like a punch to the gut. By the Obama administration's count, federal judges have dismissed 12 challenges to the Affordable Care Act. Two judges have upheld it, one ruled that its requirement that most people buy insurance is unconstitutional, and now we have a ruling that the whole law is unconstitutional because of that requirement. Sure, this law is headed inevitably for ...
Opinion: Winning the Future With Health Care Reform
By not in system - AOL NewsOn Tuesday, President Barack Obama outlined a plan to help America win the future. But some in Congress are still intent on refighting the political battles of the past two years by trying to repeal the health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With millions of Americans already benefiting from the law, we can't afford to turn back now. If the law were repealed, as many as 129 million Americans with pre-existing conditions would be vulnerable to being discriminated against by insurers. Any time these individuals changed jobs, retired, got divorced or started a business, ...
Year in Review: Top 12 Political Surprises of 2010
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe predictions game was hard to play in 2010. It was a year of upsets, comebacks and feats of survival. In rough chronological order, here are a dozen developments that we didn't expect this year: Massachusetts miracle: Republican state Sen. Scott Brown wins the U.S. Senate seat held for 47 years by liberal lion Ted Kennedy. State Attorney General Martha Coakley, Brown's lackluster Democratic opponent, is not the only victim of the year's first "shellacking." President Barack Obama and his party are stunned by the loss of their 60-vote super majority, and their ambitious health care agenda ...
Opinion: Can We All Be Drafted Into Health Care Reform War?
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 16) -- Is it "necessary and proper" for Congress to draft every American into a nationwide health insurance pool? The Obama administration claims it is and will be making this argument in a Florida federal court Thursday after having lost its case in a separate federal court earlier this week. Most non-lawyer Americans must wonder how coercing citizens to buy health insurance could possibly be constitutional. Never before has the federal government claimed the power to force citizens to buy anything from a private party. If Congress can mandate the purchase of insurance, what prevents ...
New Rules Require Health Insurers to Spend More on Care
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 22) -- Insurance companies will have to spend 80 to 85 percent of consumers' premiums on direct patient care or send a rebate if they don't, under long-awaited rules issued today that were passed as part of the Obama administration's health care law. The 308 pages of regulations on what is known as the "medical loss ratio" may be technical, but Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called them "an important step to hold insurance companies accountable and increase value for consumers." Health plans now spend as little as 60 percent of premium dollars on ...
Health Care Reform Legal Challenge Marches Forward
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 15) -- On Thursday, a federal judge in Florida ruled that a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the health care law can move forward. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson allowed two of the suit's challenges to proceed: 1) that Congress exceeds its authority with the "individual mandate" that requires almost all Americans to buy insurance, and 2) that the expansion of Medicaid compromises state sovereignty. The suit was brought by the governors and attorneys general of 20 states, and a summary judgment hearing to discuss its merits will be held in December. A Case to Watch: There ...
Titus vs. Heck in Nevada: Cliffhanger in Nation's Largest House District
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyLAS VEGAS –Rep. Dina Titus didn't bother sugar-coating the situation in her down-and-out congressional district. Three-quarters of homeowners owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, she said at a recent house party, and unemployment is probably higher than the state's record 14.4 percent. "That's a lot of people with a lot of problems," the freshman Democrat said. Serving in Congress these days, she added, "is not for the fainthearted." Republican challenger Joe Heck wasn't sugar-coating, either, but the problems he reeled off at a GOP lunch were different: Wasteful ...
Six Health Care Changes That Go Into Effect Soon
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Sept. 22) -- The wait is over. A new era of health care coverage in America is set to begin this week, when some provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act officially begin to be enforced by law. Many of the changes will be phased in over the next several years, but the debate over whether the legislation is good for the country continues to rage on, especially as the November midterm elections draw near. President Barack Obama spent much of Wednesday touting the legislation's new "Patient's Bill of Rights," and, via the White House website, attempted to combat what the ...
Fighting the 'Big Is Bad' Narrative: Dems Go Bite-Sized on Recovery, Health Laws
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyHouse Republicans have gone home for their August recess armed with a memo mocking Democrats for billing this season as "Recovery Summer." A better name, campaign committee chairman Pete Sessions wrote, might be "Run for Cover Summer." Democrats "have their backs to the wall," he said, because of their unpopular "big-government agenda." There is plenty of fodder for Republicans' "big is bad" narrative, given the huge stimulus, health care and financial regulation laws enacted in the last 18 months over their near-solid opposition. The GOP story line is simple and thus far effective: Big ...
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