• Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. (nbcnews.com)
  • You know, no matter what happens in this contest -- and I am honored, I am honored to be here with Barack Obama. (nbcnews.com)
  • So shame on you, Barack Obama. (nbcnews.com)
  • A radio ad sponsored by Hillary Clinton reprises her misleading claim that Barack Obama likes Republican ideas. (factcheck.org)
  • Angry rhetoric aside-"Shame on you, Barack Obama! (dissidentvoice.org)
  • These disparities have been improving throughout history with efforts made by Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. (ipl.org)
  • But then President Barack Obama never took questions from a whole room full of Republicans while the television cameras were rolling. (queerty.com)
  • The GOP made a Big mistake as Professor of the Debate team, President Barack Obama really wiped the floor with them. (queerty.com)
  • Socialist Party USA's magazine editor Billy Wharton, writing in The Washington Post said, "socialists know that Barack Obama is not one of us. (organicconsumers.org)
  • Many readers will remember that in the 2008 presidential campaign Barack Obama promised health reform. (independent.org)
  • In 2009, President Barack Obama declared, "I am not the first president to take up this cause [health care reform], but I am determined to be the last. (nih.gov)
  • What kind of arguments did President Barack Obama use in his 2009 Address to Congress to argue for insurance reform? (nih.gov)
  • US President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius defended the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Wednesday, amidst criticism over the non-functioning of the healthcare.gov web site and news that hundreds of thousands of people will lose their current policies. (wsws.org)
  • When it comes to finding a way to finance government-run health care, the administration of Barack Obama is floating a VAT trial balloon echoing that of President Bill Clinton in 1993. (atr.org)
  • President Barack Obama is signing the main healthcare overhaul bill this morning at a White House ceremony. (democracynow.org)
  • President BARACK OBAMA: This is the state that first believed in our campaign. (wshu.org)
  • July 13, 2009 ( UPDATED ) - President Barack Obama announced today that he would nominate Regina Benjamin, MD, a family physician in the fishing village of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, to be the next US surgeon general. (medscape.com)
  • Altogether," President Barack Obama said, "our cost-cutting measures would reduce most people's premiums, and bring down our deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next two decades. (house.gov)
  • In his speech before Congress, President Barack Obama made the commitments that a broad coalition in the faith community had asked for - reform as a moral issue, affordable coverage for all, and no federal funding of abortion. (urbanfaith.com)
  • Obama's challenge is for Republicans to create a bill that achieves Obamacare's coverage levels at lower costs. (vox.com)
  • Once again, the campaign uses a quote from a news story to say Obama's health plan would offer universal coverage. (factcheck.org)
  • Obama's plan is not a universal plan. (prospect.org)
  • Hillary Clinton accuses Barack Obama's plan of "leaving out" 15 million people from "universal coverage," and Obama charges that by mandating that everyone have insurance, Clinton's plan penalizes those who can't afford it. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • As for Obama's healthcare plan, "By mandating that every person be insured, ObamaCare would give private health insurance companies license to systematically under-insure policyholders while cashing in on the moral currency of universal coverage. (organicconsumers.org)
  • While many pundits point to local issues that helped Brown win, the fact is that Brown ran hardest against Obama's health care bill, and won despite personal appearances in Massachusetts by Obama and Bill Clinton , and despite a desperate but failed Democratic effort to beat back the insurgency. (prwatch.org)
  • Clinton and Obama's plans seems to me critical - employer play or pay, restructuring and strictly regulating the prices and benefits of private insurance, allowing buy-in to public plans, expanding Medicaid, SCHIP and Medicare, and mandates on purchasing coverage that would lead down a slippery slope of government controlling the market and actually limiting choices. (galen.org)
  • They not only met with Obama's top advisers, but also Obama himself. (townhall.com)
  • Sarah Kliff and I interviewed President Obama this morning about Obamacare (you can watch the whole interview here ). (vox.com)
  • During the conversation, Obama made this promise to Republicans: "I am saying to every Republican right now, if you in fact can put a plan together that is demonstrably better than what Obamacare is doing, I will publicly support repealing Obamacare and replacing it with your plan. (vox.com)
  • Obama to GOP: Make a better Obamacare! (vox.com)
  • The dire economic impact of Obamacare and the universal economic hardship in the offing is becoming apparent to Americans, and this is also gaining press coverage as its implementation draws near. (wnd.com)
  • Obamacare" crams two concepts - extending coverage and making it affordable for all - into a word used to demean it. (blogspot.com)
  • Obamacare" is a portmanteau word - a word that combines two meanings - in the case of health reform, more coverage and lower costs. (blogspot.com)
  • It's also the Obama scheme, as Chris Weigant concluded in the Huffington Post: 'The individual mandate which was included in Obamacare is so close to what Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation initially suggested that we can honestly say there is no appreciable difference between the two. (mltoday.com)
  • Its stock price has more than doubled, and almost tripled, since Obama publicly promised the company it would "do well" under Obamacare. (townhall.com)
  • But the relationship between the health insurance industry and the Obama administration did not end on March 23, 2010, the day Obamacare was signed into law. (townhall.com)
  • So far the Obama administration has produced more than 20,000 pages of Obamacare regulations, including a dump of more than 1,600 pages right before the most recent July 4 weekend. (townhall.com)
  • More than 30 former Obama administration officials, former congressmen, and former congressional staffers who helped usher Obamacare through the legislative process are now employed by health care lobbying firms on K Street. (townhall.com)
  • Between the millions of dollars the health insurance industry spent promoting Obamacare and the millions more it spent lobbying for favorable regulations, the bond between the Obama administration and the industry is airtight. (townhall.com)
  • The Democrat will call for an ObamaCare fix, and more steps towards universal coverage. (blogspot.com)
  • Obamacare is the colloquial name given to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) signed into law by President Obama in the USA, which ultimately aims to provide universal access to health care services for US citizens. (nih.gov)
  • While the Obama administration's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health care coverage for millions of Americans, it has fallen short in offering universal health care to all. (washington.edu)
  • Single-payer contrasts with other funding mechanisms like 'multi-payer' (multiple public and/or private sources), 'two-tiered' (defined either as a public source with the option to use qualifying private coverage as a substitute, or as a public source for catastrophic care backed by private insurance for common medical care), and 'insurance mandate' (citizens are required to buy private insurance which meets a national standard and which is generally subsidized). (wikipedia.org)
  • But in the meantime, the debate between Obama and Clinton has created an opportunity for opponents of health care business-as-usual to put their case forward-for a truly universal, single-payer health care plan. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • But if Obama wanted everyone to have access to affordable health care, he'd support a national single-payer health care plan that covers everyone. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • President Obama has discussed the need for healthcare reform and some version of universal coverage but will not go as far as supporting what is known as single payer healthcare. (blackcommentator.com)
  • Single payer means, in essence, Medicare for all, i.e., that the insurance companies are OUT of the equation entirely and that the program is a government program, much like healthcare coverage in most of the rest of the world. (blackcommentator.com)
  • I keep trying to figure out why President Obama has retreated from supporting Single Payer. (blackcommentator.com)
  • Yes, President Obama, we need true universal healthcare, and that is known as single payer . (blackcommentator.com)
  • If the Obama Administration had embraced the single-payer option -- some type of which is in place in every country that does have universal medical coverage -- it could have ignited the Democratic grassroots and educated the public. (prwatch.org)
  • For example, in May 2020, 63 percent of the public said they favored federal action to achieve "universal health coverage," but only 49 percent in the same poll favored "a single payer national health plan. (americanbar.org)
  • But even in the last days of President Reagan's reactionary rule, the trajectory of American healthcare sentiment was arching towards universal single-payer  the world-class solution. (mltoday.com)
  • As Chris Weigant wrote in the Huffington Post, Heritage commissioned its Director of Domestic Policy Strategies, Stuart Butler, to produce the Right's own 'Framework for Reform' of healthcare  one that kept the profits locked in and diverted the public from single-payer healthcare as a universal entitlement. (mltoday.com)
  • We consider here several proposals for incremental reform and three for comprehensive reform: individual mandates with subsidies, single payer, and universal vouchers. (nih.gov)
  • Mr. Obama answered bluntly: because we couldnt get it through Congress. (wshu.org)
  • Dr. Georges Benjamin said the nominee for the highest physician post in the land also comes well prepared to deal with the political challenges of the job, which will heat up as President Obama and Congress attempt to forge a path toward healthcare reform. (medscape.com)
  • Universal Coverage Health Policy Proposal One of the most significant issues that continue to affect Americans is inadequate access to healthcare. (ipl.org)
  • All in all, it appears that Americans are not happy with Obama. (wnd.com)
  • "The people closest to Obama seem to believe he wasn't telling the truth when he promised not to raise taxes on those making less than $250,000," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. (atr.org)
  • HORSLEY: Once again quoting Lyndon Johnson's words from the Medicare signing ceremony, Mr. Obama said yesterday: This generation has proven Americans still have the power to shape history. (wshu.org)
  • Obama health care for all Americans: practical implications. (nih.gov)
  • Obama signed the Affordable Health Care Act in 2010, which has covered millions of uninsured Americans. (forward.com)
  • When I talk to Republicans about the health care law, they're quick to criticize its coverage standards. (vox.com)
  • One way Republicans could achieve the same coverage levels at a lower cost is to allow insurers to offer stingier, sparer products. (vox.com)
  • Clinton falsely accused Obama of saying he 'really liked the ideas of the Republicans' including private Social Security accounts and deficit spending. (factcheck.org)
  • Mr. Obama also playfully rebutted the apocalyptic warnings of some Republicans about what would happen when the new law was passed. (wshu.org)
  • Explain the shift away from universal coverage in 1993 (discussed in Class 5 ) toward health insurance reform in 2008-9. (nih.gov)
  • Following the Moonshot initiative announced by President Obama at his 2016 State of the Union address, the Vice President delivered a rallying call to the ASCO body to find a cancer cure. (medscape.com)
  • The NTP as well as NIEHS now have a wonderful opportunity for research, as health and the environment are high priorities for the Obama administration. (nih.gov)
  • Fracking: "After the teach-in, concerned citizens went inside en masse and grouped around the officials standing around . (truthout.org)
  • Depending on the outcome, measures might be as severe as charges filed against Cabinet officials or the impeachment of Obama himself. (wnd.com)
  • The Obama exchanges have never included more than 20 million people. (independent.org)
  • The legislation effectively enables companies, states and cities to drop their own health care coverage and force individuals to purchase coverage individually on the government regulated exchanges. (wsws.org)
  • For political reasons, to juice up the numbers joining the exchanges, the Obama administration had a weak mandate promoting the sick to join, even after enrollment periods were over. (blogspot.com)
  • The most likely outcome is that the insurers who stay on the exchanges will have to jack their premiums even higher, leading to less affordable coverage and more people uninsured. (blogspot.com)
  • You know, for example, it's been unfortunate that Senator Obama has consistently said that I would force people to have health care whether they could afford it or not. (nbcnews.com)
  • But taking away insurance people already have is - as the Obama administration already learned - wildly, wildly unpopular. (vox.com)
  • To eliminate such process, the new bill will, offer new, low cost coverage through a national "high risk" frees, to protect people with preexisting condition until a new exchange is created. (antiessays.com)
  • While many people may see Obama care as a disaster, it's ten times better than the current one that we have. (antiessays.com)
  • Clinton chastised after Obama supposedly misrepresented her plan in campaign literature-both Democratic candidates are far from proposing the kind of changes necessary to guarantee people the health care they need. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • In fact, in important ways, the two Democrats' plans could make matters worse for people desperate to get quality health coverage, but left with no alternative but a private insurance industry bent on making more profits. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The only difference between Sen. Clinton's plan and mine is that she thinks the problem for people without health care is that nobody has forced them to get health care," Obama said at a Democratic debate in Las Vegas last year. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The White House continues to refuse to release information on how many people have actually been able to register and enroll in coverage. (wsws.org)
  • Contrary to the claims of the Obama administration, NBC News reported that the administration knew that millions of people stood to lose their current coverage once the health care reforms were implemented. (wsws.org)
  • I still think these people were voting against Bush not Obama. (prwatch.org)
  • Some of these people have since gotten coverage, as more states have agreed to expand the program, but 14 states have still not expanded Medicaid. (americanbar.org)
  • More than 30 million people would gain coverage in 2019 when the law is fully phased in, but another 20 million or so would remain uninsured. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Only 25 percent of the "get-outs" favor requiring health insurance companies to sell coverage to people regardless of pre-existing medical conditions, while 54 percent of the "do-mores" support it. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • said he supports the health care law because it moves toward coverage for all and does away with denial of coverage to people in poor health. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Let people be free to choose health coverage that's best for them. (blogspot.com)
  • Clinton and Obama left their recent bitterness behind at the Democratic debate prior to a nationwide series of primaries and caucuses on Feb. 5. (factcheck.org)
  • So Obama has much the easier task in the coming debate. (dickmorris.com)
  • This past week, Obama hinted at his debate strategy when he was asked about his experience while campaigning on the stump. (dickmorris.com)
  • This thinly veiled reference to Hillary's health care debacle in 1994 and her failure to post any significant legislative victories since arriving in the Senate, could be an important theme for Obama in the debate. (dickmorris.com)
  • Particularly since Hillary's experience may not bear up under scrutiny, the first debate offers Obama the best opportunity of shedding his biggest negative and destroying Hillary's most significant perceived attribute. (dickmorris.com)
  • In fact, since Hillary's experience is really derivative of Bill's, Obama may be able to show that she really has no edge in this department. (dickmorris.com)
  • One of the most important parts of this campaign is Hillary's stance with President Obama. (forward.com)
  • This is a plan that makes universality possible -- that is budgeted for 100 percent coverage -- but does not use a government or individual mandate to force global buy-in. (prospect.org)
  • In response, the Obama campaign has argued that Clinton's universal mandate will penalize the middle class. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The constitutional basis for a universal health coverage policy will almost certainly remain even if the Supreme Court declares the current ACA unconstitutional next year, based on the theory that the individual mandate was central to the whole scheme ( California v. Texas ). (americanbar.org)
  • Obama has responded with an ad that makes a half-true accusation that Clinton 'championed' NAFTA. (factcheck.org)
  • More recent polling has found that both Obama and Clinton are leading all of the Republican front-runners. (factcheck.org)
  • Beyond these, however, Obama and Clinton disagree on who will be insured and how. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • What did Obama learn from the defeat of the Clinton plan? (nih.gov)
  • Not just Roosevelt and Johnson, but Harry S. Truman, Nixon and Mr. Clinton all tried and failed to move the country toward universal health coverage. (mltoday.com)
  • Deregulate them, something President Obama and Hillary Clinton are ideologically opposed to doing. (blogspot.com)
  • Obama did win a major victory with the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, the most sweeping and comprehensive health care reform in U.S. history. (nih.gov)
  • These being the case, we are still reliant upon the GOP leadership and any Democrats who perceive that public opinion weighs in favor of their flipping on Obama. (wnd.com)
  • Clinton's ad falsely implies that Obama supported 'special tax breaks for Wall Street' and running up the deficit, and that he opposed minimum wage increases while refusing to deal with the housing crisis. (factcheck.org)
  • But the Post was citing the estimate of the Obama campaign and didn't analyze the purported savings independently. (factcheck.org)
  • You've got Barney Frank saying it and you've got Obama saying it numerous times in the campaign and all the way back to 2003 when he was in the Illinois Senate talking about it! (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • With just two days left in September, we're 80% of the way to reaching our goal for this month's campaign to support our clear and accessible policy coverage. (vox.com)
  • If not, the Obama campaign swears up and down that they're committed to 100 percent coverage, and if that means a second round of coverage-increasing policies in a few years, so be it. (prospect.org)
  • Iowa City resident Mary LaRue remembers that Obama campaign visit three years ago. (wshu.org)
  • While the astute remain aware that she is still the Democratic leadership's heir apparent, this may not preclude Obama and his closest co-conspirators' attempting to sling her under the bus. (wnd.com)
  • Six months ago, the vocal factions of the Tea Party revolt organized among anti-Obama right wingers were mostly an annoyance to the Democratic Party . (prwatch.org)
  • The grassroots political momentum in the country is now with the right wing populists who have tapped into a great disillusionment with Obama and his Democratic Party. (prwatch.org)
  • Overall, our analysis indicates that the (bill) would increasingly strain the fiscal resources necessary to support the Commonwealth's continued commitment to universal health coverage," Baker said in the letter to the state's all-Democratic delegation. (necn.com)
  • Tuesday, June 7, was a heady day for this nation when, as President Obama stated, the Democratic Party became set to nominate the most experienced candidate ever put forth by the Party. (forward.com)
  • Her positions are strong Democratic principles: health care for all, wise Supreme Court judges, investment in early-childhood, inclusiveness, a strong safety net, universal women's and minority rights, reduction of mass incarceration and a commitment to confront climate change. (forward.com)
  • Obama has often compared himself to all three, agreeing with Reagan that the Sixties was a decade plagued by 'excesses' Â which, to Reagan's mind, included Lyndon Johnson's expansive social legislation. (mltoday.com)
  • The Obama administration has made "no progress" toward its goal of universal broadband coverage, the platform adds. (computerworld.com)
  • I guess like everything else, time will tell the overall effectiveness and benefit of Obama Care and will show if it has made us better and more compassionate for those who are less fortunate or has had the opposite effect and has done more damage than good to an already unstable health care industry. (antiessays.com)
  • President Obama made a political policy choice to build on existing private and public insurance mechanisms for his health plan, not replace them. (americanbar.org)
  • Studies find that Medicaid enrollees, for example, value their coverage at as little as 20 cents on the dollar . (independent.org)
  • By 2022, the state could also lose up to $475 million in additional federal revenue if the Trump administration scraps a Medicaid waiver that Baker signed with the Obama administration last year, the governor warned. (necn.com)
  • What Obama has on the back burner here is this: Page 16 states: If you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change your insurance, you'll be required to take a similar plan. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • It will increase coverage by forcing some employers to begin offering insurance, but it is not particularly heavy-handed even there. (prospect.org)
  • According to Graham some law firms, school districts and hospitals throughout the United States are facing tough choices with rising insurance cost under Obama Care. (antiessays.com)
  • His plan limits mandated insurance to coverage for children alone. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The leading cause of the disparities is insurance coverage. (ipl.org)
  • Partial answers, such as the healthcare plan in Massachusetts that mandates that everyone PURCHASE healthcare insurance, but continues to rely on private insurance companies, does nothing to reduce costs, increase efficiency, or guarantee that if one loses one s job - which is a very real thing in an economic recession - that one will have quality healthcare coverage for you and your family that does more than keep you breathing. (blackcommentator.com)
  • 7. Safe implementation of robotic gastrectomy for gastric cancer under the requirements for universal health insurance coverage: a retrospective cohort study using a nationwide registry database in Japan. (nih.gov)
  • The massive federal subsidies are money on the table" Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former Congressional Budget Office director, wrote, "inviting a vast reworking of compensation packages, insurance coverage and labor market relations. (house.gov)
  • Roughly 57 percent of small companies now offering coverage are at least somewhat likely to drop health insurance, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, if employees begin to opt out of the employer-sponsored health plan and into subsidized coverage. (house.gov)
  • That last phrase, "and can be achieved by building on the current system" was the health insurance industry's top priority in the beginning of the Obama administration. (townhall.com)
  • And the health insurance industry isn't hiding its cooperation with the Obama administration in promoting the new law. (townhall.com)
  • Specialize in-Medicare Insurance (Medicare Advantage & Medicare Supplemental Products) Marketplace Individual Insurance (Obama Care/ACA On-Exchange/Off Exchange Plans) Private Individual Insurance (Short-Term Coverage/Catastrophic Coverage) Life Insurance (Term/Whole/Universal Life) Supplemental Insurance-Dental, Vision & Hearing Insurance. (healthmarkets.com)
  • The law does not require employers to offer coverage, but it hits companies that have 50 or more workers with a penalty if any full-time employee gets a government subsidy for health insurance. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • I will lay out the most important real barriers to achieving the goal of universal health care coverage in the United States and conclude with some predictions about what may happen to Medicare for All after the 2020 election. (americanbar.org)
  • President OBAMA: When I came here three years ago, I told the story of when Lyndon Johnson stood with Harry Truman and signed Medicare into law. (wshu.org)
  • Obama accused the Bush administration of failing to make 'any serious effort' to encourage use of alternative fuels or raise fuel efficiency of automobiles. (factcheck.org)
  • Though important differences remain, Democrats have reached a broad consensus about such goals as ending the Iraq War, providing universal health coverage, and restoring greater progressivity to the tax system by sunsetting the Bush tax cuts for those making over $200,000. (prospect.org)
  • Ted Epperly, MD, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, also applauded her nomination, saying that Dr. Benjamin understands the need for both universal healthcare coverage and enough primary care physicians to deliver the care. (medscape.com)
  • On May 7, radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested a difficult-to-believe but entirely possible reason for many Democrats (both rank-and-file and politicians) and the press having stood by Obama for so long. (wnd.com)
  • A policy wonk, she will have to put her store of information on display so that Obama simply cannot measure up. (dickmorris.com)
  • These meetings had a very clear impact on the policy that Obama would eventually produce. (townhall.com)
  • Obama challenges GOP to offer a "demonstrably better" health plan. (vox.com)
  • But the full article points out that his plan 'does not guarantee' full coverage. (factcheck.org)
  • I don't particularly understand the thinking here, but the end result is this: The Obama plan will not bring us to 100 percent coverage in the short-term. (prospect.org)
  • The Obama health care plan was intended to provide all American with stability and security under the health care reform. (antiessays.com)
  • I am not saying that the bill will not work or that it is not needed, I just believe that more effort and thought should have gone into the proposed plan and what implications it has on all involved before trying to go live with coverage. (antiessays.com)
  • HORSLEY: In his first road trip since the passage of the landmark health care law, Mr. Obama returned to Iowa City, home of the University of Iowa, where he first spelled out his plan for universal health care as a rookie candidate for the White House in 2007. (wshu.org)
  • It also would invite the government to be very prescriptive about what would be covered, who must be enrolled, how much the coverage would cost, how much health plans and doctors could charge, etc., leading to a plan that looks much more like a government-run health program than the competitive purchasing pool that is envisioned. (galen.org)
  • I will make two-hour presentations to parks agencies about how we can improve operations quality while cutting costs by 30-50% or more, and the near-universal response is, "well, if you reduce costs, then the legislature will just reduce our appropriations. (coyoteblog.com)
  • Most of the U.S. corporate media  those who make the first drafts of history acceptable to the ruling class  also want Obama to have a shot at a place in the pantheon, since he has done some service to the rulers. (mltoday.com)
  • And they spent furiously to make sure Obama would protect them. (townhall.com)
  • The selected organization(s) will develop a single universal adaptor, or standardized family of adaptors, for the attachment of ENDS, cigars, and heated tobacco products to existing smoking machines originally designed for use with cigarettes and make available to tobacco stakeholders, contract and government laboratories, and academic institutions. (nih.gov)
  • Sebelius testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, while Obama gave a speech at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. (wsws.org)
  • The current intervention being used is the ACA, which was put into place by President Obama. (ipl.org)
  • President Obama was simply brilliant tonight! (queerty.com)
  • I have always leaned in the direction of the administration having orchestrated the attack for reasons of its own - given his connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and legendary understanding of all things Islamic, it is possible that President Obama could even have arranged for the assault on the compound without the foreknowledge of his Cabinet. (wnd.com)
  • A major reason Obama has skated for so long - and particularly with Republican leaders - is that no one wishes his or her legacy to include having brought down America's first black president. (wnd.com)
  • When President Obama was selling health reform, he often talked about providing universal coverage. (ttu.edu)
  • President Obama has declared that reforming healthcare is near the top of his agenda. (blackcommentator.com)
  • President Obama traveled to Iowa yesterday to highlight some of the benefits that law would provide. (wshu.org)
  • SCOTT HORSLEY: President Obama will always have a soft spot for Iowa. (wshu.org)
  • President OBAMA: Yes we did. (wshu.org)
  • President OBAMA: So after I signed the bill, I looked around to see if there were any. (wshu.org)
  • Appearing with President Obama when he announced the nomination, Dr. Benjamin said she wanted to ensure "that no one - no one - falls through the cracks as we improve our healthcare system. (medscape.com)
  • President Obama, as his aides will tell anyone within hearing distance, wants to go down in history as one of the 'greats. (mltoday.com)
  • On June 22, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act), P.L. 111-31, which amended the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) and gave FDA broad authority to regulate the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products. (nih.gov)
  • McKinsey & Co. found that 30 percent of employers - and 28 percent of large ones - said they will definitely or probably drop coverage after 2014. (house.gov)
  • Governments use this strategy to achieve several goals, including universal healthcare, decreased economic burden of health care, and improved health outcomes for the population. (wikipedia.org)
  • These programs generally provide some form of universal health care, which is implemented in a variety of ways. (wikipedia.org)
  • You know, health care reform and achieving universal health care is a passion of mine. (nbcnews.com)
  • To answer the above questions, we'll explore some possible outcomes or impacts of Obama-care. (antiessays.com)
  • Author Jed Graham's article, "Obama Care's impact on Job loss" (2013), emphasizes how the new health care reform law is causing job loss. (antiessays.com)
  • If Obama is a socialist, then on health care, he's doing a fairly good job of concealing it," writes Wharton. (organicconsumers.org)
  • When the ACA was signed in 2010, Obama claimed that it would extend coverage to millions of uninsured and initiate a progressive transformation of the US health care system. (wsws.org)
  • Trial balloons wafting over Washington say the administration may be considering a value-added tax - VAT for short - to fund universal health care coverage. (atr.org)
  • The windfall profits tax is one example that comes to mind (though in other areas, e.g. health care reform, there is at least an attempt to follow market-based regulation principles, though I'd question whether the market failure in the provision of health care can be solved with this particular approach - not every market failure can be overcome through market-based regulation - and universal coverage may require mandates). (typepad.com)
  • Decades of litigation provide solid constitutional support for alternative ways to achieve universal health care. (americanbar.org)
  • Mr. OBAMA: It doesn't do everything that everybody wants, but it moves us in the direction of universal health care coverage in this country, and that's why everybody here fought so hard for it. (wshu.org)
  • that it bears some resemblance to universal health care as practiced in the rest of the developed world  an outrageous distortion of fact and history. (mltoday.com)
  • The GOP-backed health care bill before the U.S. House could cost Massachusetts at least $1.5 billion in annual federal payments within five years, and undermine the state's ability to provide near universal coverage for its residents, Gov. Charlie Baker wrote Tuesday in a letter to the congressional delegation. (necn.com)
  • During a June 24, 2009 ABC News town hall meeting on health care, Obama assured the CEO of Aetna: "Aetna is a well-managed company and I am confident that your shareholders are going to do well. (townhall.com)
  • Krugman says a new commitment to equality must start with universal health care coverage. (indyweek.com)
  • The downward trend in scientific production on this law has been noted, and it has been concluded that a balance has not yet been reached between the coexistence of private and public health care that guarantees broad social coverage without economic or other types of barriers. (nih.gov)
  • Change of Subject: Rhubarb Patch: Is the U.S. Senate race a proxy vote on Obama? (chicagotribune.com)
  • HORSLEY: At the time, Mr. Obama had quoted Johnson as saying history shapes man but leaders also have to have faith that men can shape history. (wshu.org)
  • In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth is Revolutionary. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Obama claimed we are 'back where we started two years ago' in Iraq. (factcheck.org)
  • That's not the direction universal healthcare advocates have been trying to go, all these years. (mltoday.com)
  • Senator Obama, your response. (nbcnews.com)
  • I think that one of most notable things was how universal the response was, no matter which city we went to," said Jan Rodolfo, a CNA member and nurse at the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., who traveled across the country on the bus. (socialistworker.org)
  • Achieving a cancer cure, however, will not be a state-centric achievement but rather a universal victory for humankind. (medscape.com)
  • Earlier this week, Fox News Channel analyst Brit Hume asserted that for the investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, "to become the scandal it surely deserves to be," it will require relentless news coverage. (wnd.com)
  • Obama visits El Salvador this week to discuss drug trafficking, poverty and street gangs, but it is Guatemala that is the new front line in the drug war as the Mexican cartels expand their operations to escape U.S.-backed pressure at home. (insightcrime.org)
  • One claims that Obama is "certainly a racist" by virtue of belonging to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, which it says "will accept only black parishoners" and espouses a commitment to Africa. (factcheck.org)