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Healthcare | Missouri Political News Service - Part 7

Entries Tagged as 'Healthcare'

More Premium Hikes Resulting From Obamacare Add To The Case For Repeal

January 6th, 2011 · No Comments

As the new House Republican majority moves to respond to the message of the American people to repeal and replace President Obama’s massive, unpopular health care law, Americans are once again being reminded of the many broken promises from Democrats about that law. According to the Los Angeles Times, “Another big California health insurer has […]

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Claire: “I Was for the Obamacare Mandate Before I Was Against It”

January 6th, 2011 · No Comments

“Any attempt to extricate herself from him [President Obama] will be an act of disloyalty. She will not do that at all.”–Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) 12/15/10 Sen. McCaskill’s further slide away from the president continues: Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), expected to face stiff competition from Republicans in the 2012 election, said she understood why the […]

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Economic Illiterates Tout Benefits of Obamacare

January 3rd, 2011 · No Comments

The economic illiterates over at FiredUp Missouri want us to be excited because of all the new benefits the nanny state is providing us – starting today – through Obamacare like: Prescription drug costs could shrink $700 for a typical Medicare beneficiary in 2011, as the law begins to close the notorious doughnut hole Medicare […]

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Virginia Ruling Against Obamacare Again Vindicates GOP Arguments

December 14th, 2010 · No Comments

The Wall Street Journal editorializes today, “Only a few months ago, the White House and its allies on the legal left dismissed the constitutional challenges to ObamaCare as frivolous, futile and politically motivated. So much for that. Yesterday, a federal district court judge in Virginia ruled that the health law breaches the Constitution’s limits on […]

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Kinder Praises Health Care Ruling; Support for ObamaCare Repeal Hits Highest Point Since September

December 13th, 2010 · No Comments

When it rains it pours for our beleaguered president! “Today’s ruling is a victory not only for the people of the United States, but also for the freedoms we hold so dear. Judge Hudson’s ruling confirms what many of us believed to be true nearly one year ago; that congress overstepped their authority in mandating […]

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4 Weeks After Election Day, Democrats’ Priorities Still Out Of Touch

November 30th, 2010 · No Comments

With Congress back from its Thanksgiving break, Democrats once again have an opportunity to prove that they heard the message Americans sent Washington on election day by focusing on the priorities of the American people: helping the economy and preventing a massive tax increase in January. Yet Democrats continue to show that their priorities are […]

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Sen. Minority Leader To File Brief Supporting Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit

November 15th, 2010 · No Comments

The Hill reported last week, “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will file a brief in a Florida court in support of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health reform law. The top Senate Republican will file an ‘amicus curiae’ (‘friend of the court’) brief in the Florida case, and has urged GOP […]

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Kaiser Health Poll Shows 56% Of Midterm Voters Want Obamacare Repealed Entirely Or In Part

November 9th, 2010 · No Comments

The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza writes this morning, “A new Kaiser Family Foundation post-election poll suggests that a majority of people who voted on Nov. 2 favor repealing some or all of the health-care legislation passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress and signed into law by President Obama earlier this year. Fifty-six percent of midterm voters […]

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Dems Still Running From Unpopular Obamacare‏

October 27th, 2010 · No Comments

Just after Democrats passed their unpopular health care bill, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) declared on Meet the Press, “As people learn about the bill, it’s going to be more and more popular. By November, those who voted for health care will find it an asset, those who voted against it will find it a liability.” […]

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Dem Leaders Complain People Don’t Know About What They Did

October 25th, 2010 · No Comments

Recently, Democrats have been expressing their frustration at a lack of support for their policies. Some key Democrat leaders have apparently decided the reason is because they haven’t been bragging enough about the bills they’ve passed. Last week, President Obama lamented, “[I]t was very difficult for us to spend a lot of time doing victory […]

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