All posts tagged "Health Care Legislation"

KO OLINA, Hawaii — US President Barack Obama told supporters in his home state of Hawaii that everything they fought for in his 2008 election triumph was in the balance in the 2012 race.

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it would weigh the legality of President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the first few months of next year.

WASHINGTON — Profanity on television, police use of GPS without a warrant, and the status of Jerusalem on passports are grist for the new US Supreme Court session opening Monday, but the main event will be President Barack Obama's landmark health care reform.

A report in Wednesday's New York Times that the Obama administration has been issuing waivers to allow many businesses to evade the provisions of the new health care reform law is arousing widespread debate.

Senate Democratic leaders, stung by their recent inability to gain the filibuster-proof majority needed to pass financial reform or an extension of unemployment benefits, have begun blaming tea party influence for intimidating Republican moderates like Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine.

President Barack Obama is ripping into his Republican opponents, accusing them of refusing to help rebuild America after having "created the mess" and driving the economy "into the ditch."