It’s time now to focus on Arizona’s health-care system
Since last spring, the noisy and sometime rancorous health-care-reform debate has kept all eyes and ears on Washington. It now appears the probability is high that a health-care-reform bill will be signed by President Obama. Given what our state is contemplating with respect to the next round of budget cuts, I think some sharp focus [...]
Read MoreLa. can?t afford health-care bill
The United States Senate seems headed for a vote on a nearly $1 trillion health-care overhaul. We all recognize the need to change the current system of delivering and financing health care — in order to ensure quality and to make coverage more affordable. The problem is that there is no evidence that the current [...]
Read MoreKing will continue to fight health-care bill
U. S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said Democrats are working to create a “dependency class” in America in an effort to expand their political base and stay in power. “That’s part of the motive,” King said when discussing federal health-care reform efforts with reporters after a Tuesday taping of Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press. ”King, [...]
Read MoreHealth-Care Reform to Dump Poor Kids?
Oleta Fitzgerald, director of the Children’s Defense Fund’s Southern Regional Office, says she is concerned over the welfare of Mississippi children if either of the two health-care reform packages considered by the U. S. House and Senate ever make it into law. The House passed H. R. 3962 earlier this month, and Senate Democrats managed [...]
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