CBS Local Presidential Forum Romney/Obama: Exchange Barbs Over Obamacare Vs....
By Carol Cain CBS 62 Detroit Obamacare and Romneycare are so associated with President Barack Obama and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney that each took time to field a question about their namesake plan...
View ArticleCBS Local Presidential Forum: Obama/Romney: Appealing To Women Voters!
By Carol Cain CBS 62 Detroit With this grueling presidential contest heading into the final days, President Barack Obama and former Mass. Gov Mitt Romney are getting in touch with their softer side as...
View ArticleOpinion: Obamacare Is Bad For Small Business
As the final days of the presidential campaign of 2012 wind down, there is ongoing concern about what President Barack Obama’s law for requiring businesses to provide health care for its employees...
View ArticleOpinion: Single-Issue Voting Is Wrong In These Multi-Issue Times
During this election cycle in 2012, like no other time one can remember, Americans tend to be talking about voting due to one single issue or another. Whether it be the Sandra Fluke issue of free...
View ArticleOpinion: Obamacare Should Win It For Mitt Romney
As we enter the last four days of the oft-times endless-appearing presidential campaign of 2012, there is one thing that has not changed throughout the entire process. That is the data-driven...
View ArticleOpinion: President Obama Says Vote For Revenge
Though President Barack Obama has said that he was not influenced by the sermons, preached messages and teachings he received from the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in the South Side of Chicago in the...
View ArticleOpinion: This Is What A Mandate Looks Like
After two years and more than two billion dollars spent, President Obama was returned to Washington with a clear mandate on the economy and the direction of the country. When it came to our economic...
View ArticleOpinion: Four More Years Of Gridlock
The 2012 presidential election results gave the United States Congress little reason to end the gridlock that has plagued President Barack Obama for the past two years. After all, the politicians who...
View ArticleOpinion: Mitt Romney’s Parting Gift
Mitt Romney gave America a parting gift yesterday. It wasn’t his tax returns or the secret roadmap to make his tax cuts reduce the deficit. In fact the Romney campaign’s economic advisor came out for...
View ArticleOpinion: Happy Thanksgiving
The Buck Starts Here wishes a happy Thanksgiving to our readers. For progressives there is much to be thankful for this year. The election could not have turned out much better for those who support...
View ArticleOpinion: Brain Dead Politics In Virginia
Yesterday, I wrote about the brain dead approach of the current Republican Party: sign a bunch of out-of-the-mainstream pledges on taxes, women’s health care and all sorts of other policies; run to...
View ArticleOpinion: Obamacare Savings
In June of last year, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. Despite Republican’s efforts to defeat President Obama and Democrats for what they call derisively “ObamaCare,” the President...
View ArticleObamaCare 101: Separating Fact From Fiction
With 2013 upon us and the elections behind, Americans can start to settle down and focus on what is currently passing for real life in our country today. Anxieties about job availability, our financial...
View ArticleConservative Groups Gain Traction At US Grad Schools In Response To ‘Obamacare’
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A new conservatism is beginning to emerge on some college campuses, spurred in part by opposition to President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Modeled after The Federalist...
View ArticleSeniors & The ACA
In 1965, health care coverage for seniors in America changed dramatically with the passage of Medicare, and largely remained unchanged until 2010, when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
View ArticleGov. Nikki Haley Wants Congress To “Defund Obamacare”
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — While South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says she wants Congress to “defund Obamacare,” she doesn’t support shutting down the federal government to do so. Haley emphasized her...
View ArticleNorth Carolina School Board To Consider Abstinence Grants
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s school board is expected to distribute about $800,000 to 19 rural public school districts to help teach children to abstain from sex. The State Board of Education...
View ArticleResidents In Republican-Led States Have Difficult Time Finding Health Care Info
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With new online health insurance exchanges set to launch Tuesday, consumers in many Southern and Plains states will have to look harder for information on how the marketplaces work...
View ArticleGov. Haley: Opening Day For Health Exchange A Mess
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley says opening day for enrolling in health insurance through the federally run online marketplace is a mess. The Republican governor has actively opposed the...
View ArticleNC Insurance Market Opens As Health Care Required
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Sherlene Parker and Nakimma Powell were strolling along downtown Raleigh’s main street Tuesday when they met clipboard-carrying volunteers urging them to think about health...
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