Sunday, July 1, 2012

Obama health care

  • Shortly after the Supreme Court's historic health-care decision, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney appeared before the cameras to offer their spin. Neither took questions.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • House Speaker John Boehner vowed to repeal President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul in full, even as he described some conditions in the law as "sound.
  • (Businessweek)
  • Health care, shmealthcare. The heated rhetoric and relentless hype pouring out from pundits and politicians since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Obamas national health care plan overhaul is enough to make anyone sick and confused.
  • (Orlando Sentinel)
  • Republicans are redoubling their vow to repeal President Obamas health care law, while Democrats point out the legislative hurdles of such a task.
  • (Detroit Free Press)
  • White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew repeatedly said today that the penalty for failure to buy health insurance is not a tax, no matter what people are saying about last weeks Supreme Court decision.
  • (USA Today)
  • Republicans certainly do, and they're using it target President Obama – both on the specifics of the Affordable Care Act, which they vow to repeal, and to paint Obama as a tax-and-spend liberal.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • A day after the Supreme Court essentially upheld his signature health care law, President Obama flew to Colorado to meet with first responders to the wild fires. NPRs Scott Horsley wraps the presidents week. Copyright © 2012 National Public Radio®.
  • (NPR News)
  • To Republicans, including presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the Affordable Care Act is a mega tax increase that will be paid by everyone from low income Americans and small businesses to gigantic corporations.
  • (Alaska Dispatch)
  • WASHINGTON – Jacob J.
  • (New York Times Blogs)
  • she favors the president's health care law, which may have finally swayed her. Still, her endorsement is less than resounding. "I lean a little toward Obama," she said. "I guess.
  • (New York Times)

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