by Jane Richey | Sep 20, 2013 | Health Care, Politics
The House on Friday passed legislation that defunds ObamaCare but would keep the government running through mid-December. The legislation was approved on a party line 230-189 vote, with Rep. Scott Rigell (Va.) the only GOP no vote. Two Democrats voted for the measure,...
by Jane Richey | Sep 19, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care
Today’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report [2] reiterates the long-standing and obvious fact that there is a health care spending crisis approaching, resulting largely from the structurally flawed Medicare program and made significantly worse by Obamacare’s new...
by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Health Care
The White House seems to regard laws as mere suggestions, including the laws it helped to write. On the heels of last week’s one-year suspension of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate to offer insurance to workers, the Administration is now waiving...
by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Health Care
U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, a former health-care executive, has made it clear that he is no fan of the Affordable Care Act. But Thompson does not think that shutting down the government, or denying funding for the law to halt its implementation, is the way to go....
by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Health Care
Franchise restaurant owners have come to Washington seeking a change to ObamaCare that they say could prevent them from having to cut their employees’ hours. The healthcare law requires large employers to provide insurance to employees who work at least 30 hours per...
by Jane Richey | Sep 16, 2013 | Health Care
Union leaders in Pennsylvania are echoing concerns expressed by the national AFL-CIO about the implementation of the federal health care law. At this week’s national conference of the AFL-CIO, an umbrella group for dozens of labor unions, union leaders approved a...
