Tag: Health Care
Judge says Affordable Care Act does not violate religious freedom
A federal judge in the District of Columbia ruled today that Obama's health care plan, the Affordable Care Act, does not violate the plaintiff's freedom of religion. Plaintiffs had argued that they did not need insurance because they relied on God to protect them.
State of Union strikes chord with Dems, others skeptical
President Barack Obama delivered a rousing State of the Union speech tonight in front of wolves laying down with lambs. Colorado Senator Mark Udall, who called for the bipartisan seating arrangement, sat with Senator Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina. Most of Colorado's delegation sat together, regardless of party, and the same was true throughout the chamber.
Lunchtime links: Wealthy Republican lawmakers want tax cuts; Americans want jobs
The Bush tax cuts, which will disproportionately benefit millionaire Washington DC lawmakers in relation to the rest of the nation's population, are a low...
Northern Colorado voters unhappy with choices, NYT says
Have you noticed a lack of excitement in this year's races? Oh sure, you've got Tom Tancredo calling out John Hickenlooper on immigration. You've...
Hickenlooper meets with vets, hears concerns, pledges help
Democratic gubernatorial nominee John Hickenlooper today met with veterans at the Mile High American GI Forum in Northwest Denver. He and Lt. Governor nominee...
State, federal health reform expands Medicaid eligibility by 200K in Colorado
The Colorado Health Institute, the state's non-partisan non-ideological non-profit source for health care information, is reporting that state and federal laws passed in the...
The partial return of the public option
Four months after President Barack Obama enacted the Affordable Care And Patient Protection Act, House Democrats have resurfaced a top liberal priority buried near the end of the grueling year-long battle over health care reform: the public option.
Coffman rallies Republicans by decrying Obama ‘march of socialism’
Sixth-District Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman fired up the party faithful Saturday at the Republican Lincoln Day Dinner in Centennial by unleashing a tea-party-style broadside...
Bachmann calls for constitutional conservative takeover to free ‘nation of slaves’
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., was "giddy" on policy and heavy on appropriating comments from conservative pundits in her key note speech to the Western Conservative Summit in Denver Friday. Railing on Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the health-policy adviser at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, for his support of rationing health care and what she saw as Obama sponsored takeovers of U.S. industries, Bachmann said that the only way to escape the "tyranny" imposed by the last 18 months of Democratic rule was to elect constitutional conservatives to Congress.
Ritter to kick off federal health reform plan in Colorado
In the West Foyer of the Capitol Tuesday, Governor Bill Ritter will celebrate national health care reform legislation by announcing the introduction of the...