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Romney: I’m proud of Romneycare
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he was proud of the health care law he implemented while governor of Massachusetts, which was used as a blueprint for President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. “First of all, I would repeal all of Obamacare and replace it with the kinds…
Obama: Romney would take women’s health care back to the 1950s
DENVER, Colorado — US President Barack Obama reopened a culture war battle over contraception Wednesday, saying Mitt Romney’s Republicans would take women’s preventive health care back to the 1950s. In a direct pitch for the votes of women, who could be crucial in November’s election, Obama flew to Colorado to…
CBO: Repealing Obamacare would increase deficit by $109 billion
Repealing all of President Barack Obama’s health care law would increase the federal budget deficit by about $109 billion from 2013 to 2022, according to the Congressional Budget Office. House Republicans have voted more than 30 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, claiming the law will increase the deficit,…
Republicans: Health care repeal has bipartisan support
WASHINGTON — US lawmakers began five contentious hours of debate Tuesday over repealing the health care law, with Republicans insisting there is bipartisan support for wiping President Barack Obama’s landmark reforms from the books. Democrats have slammed the effort — the 31st vote to repeal part or all of the…
Top 6 hyperbolic responses to the health care ruling
Not surprisingly, conservatives were upset on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health care law was constitutional in a 5-4 decision. Republicans reacted to the ruling by vowing — once again — to repeal all of the Affordable Care Act. Some said…
Bachmann: Overturn health care law or it ‘will be the end of our Constitution’
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) believes she has uncovered a plot to convince one Supreme Court justice to uphold President Barack Obama’s landmark health care law, which she warned would be “the end of our Constitution.” Earlier this week, Bachmann told conservative radio host Sandy Rios that a Time magazine profile…
Republican House candidate fires gun at health care law in campaign ad
An Arizona Republican running for the state’s fourth congressional district seat has released a new ad in which he shows his distaste for the health care law by obliterating it with a shotgun. “Government run healthcare? We don’t want it, we don’t need it, we can’t afford it,” the candidate,…
Obama to hold forum on women and the economy
US President Barack Obama hosts a forum Friday on women and the economy, as aides warn of a “devastating” impact on the key voting bloc if the Supreme Court overturns his health care law. The White House said the forum would “examine the ways in which the administration has worked…
Maddow: People hate Obamacare, but love its provisions
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Wednesday night that although polls have found that most Americans have an unfavorable view of Obama’s health care reform, they overwhelming approve of the actual provisions of the law. “So, you ask people if they want the health care law and they say, ‘no, it’s…
Iowa woman schools Romney on anti-abortion amendment
A woman in Iowa on Thursday gave Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney a lesson in why his support for a state constitutional amendment to define life as beginning at conception would have effectively ended up banning many forms of birth control. Earlier this month, the candidate told Fox News host…
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