Posts Tagged ‘health care reform’

In the year since President Obama took office, Congress has been focused on one major issue, health care reform.  In this year, the Obama Administration has nothing to show for it besides an even more skeptical public, a fractured Democrat Party in Congress, and a whole host of bad press on provisions including the Cornhusker [...]

Earlier in the week Politico had a story how New Hampshire’s Senior Senator was open to working across the aisle to craft a bipartisan health care reform solution.
In a letter to Obama released late Tuesday, Gregg welcomed the meeting as a chance for “constructive dialogue” and is promoting his own lower-cost approach focused on preventive [...]

In today’s Union Leader, Kelly Ayotte lays out what she thinks need to be a part of a health care bill in an Op Ed.  The entire column is worth the read,  but here are the main points that she makes.
Background on the current bills:
With health care costs growing at unsustainable rates, it is becoming [...]

Today’s UL has a must read op ed from New Hampshire’s senior Senator.  In it he makes the case that the health care reform that has passed the House and is set to be taken up for debate in the Senate next week, is not what Americans want and is a budget busting bill that [...]

Bill Binnie, Republican candidate for US Senate issued the following statement tonight after the Senate voted to begin debate on passage of the health care bill.

U.S. Senate Candidate Bill Binnie Issues Statement Regarding Democrat Health Care Bill
Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Bill Binnie issued the following statement regarding the health care legislation moving through the Senate [...]

“If government were a product, selling it would be illegal”  PJ O’Rourke
The latest version of health care reform legislation introduced by Speaker Pelosi and passed by a 220 to 215 cliff hanger vote represents a 1990 page mammoth attempt to ‘change’ America. While clearly there is [...]

Today, New Hampshire’s Senior US Senator, Judd Gregg, issued the following statement on the price tag for the Senate Finance Committee’s Health Care Reform Bill:

GREGG: FINANCE PROPOSAL WILL RADICALLY GROW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND FAILS TO ADDRESS OUR NATION’S HEALTH CARE PROBLEMS
CBO Score Indicates Bill Will Increase Size of
Government by Almost $1 Trillion
Senator Gregg stated, [...]

Kudos to Now Hampshire for reporting this.
If you have have been wondering whether or not Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter were going to hold any Town Hall meetings in their respective districts this August, to discuss hot issues like health care, the answer is no. Both Hodes and Shea-Porter are too cowardly to face their constituents and will instead [...]