President Obama: Health Care Ruling A 'Victory' For All / Mitt Romney: Supreme Court Ruling On Health Law Wrong

President Barack Obama says the Supreme Court's decision to uphold his health care overhaul is a "victory for people all over the country" and will make their lives more secure.



Republican Mitt Romney is promising that he will repeal the federal health care law the Supreme Court just upheld. He called the decision incorrect and said Thursday that it is a 'bad law.'

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Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law

The Supreme Court has upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Why Health Care Is Mitt Romney's Jeremiah Wright

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By: David Swerdlick

It's still 2011, but at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference, the 2012 presidential race may have found its Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Only this time, the candidate isn't President Barack Obama, and this year's Wright -- the preacher Obama broke with in 2008 to win over middle-American voters -- isn't a reverend at all.

This time around the candidate is former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Romney's Rev. Wright is his own brainchild: the individual health care mandate put into law in Massachusetts and known as "RomneyCare." CONTINUE....

Obama: 'We Can Still Tackle Big Things'

Shortly after the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans, President Obama said, "we proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things."

'What Change Looks Like': Health Care Bill Passes House

By: Dayo Olopade

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, passed an enormous, politically daring overhaul of the American health insurance and health care delivery system by a margin of 219-212. President Barack Obama, expected to sign the bill into law later this week, rejoiced with a high-five. And yet in an address from the East Room of the White House, his sense of history overwhelmed his urge to celebrate. "Tonight we answered the call of history as so many generations of Americans have before us," he said. "When faced with crisis, we did not shrink from our challenge--we overcame it. We did not avoid our responsibility--we embraced it. We did not fear our future--we shaped it."

'What Change Looks Like': Health Care Bill Passes House....

Health Care Bill Faces Senate Standstill

By: Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

 

 Health Care Bill Faces Senate Standstill....

Is New Cry for States' Rights Racist?

By: Frederick Cosby

Are opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care proposals playing the race card?

Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, thinks so. He accuses some health care reform foes of reaching way down to the bottom of the deck to play an old, but tested hand favored by Southern civil rights era segregationists: State’s rights.

 

 Is New Cry for States' Rights Racist?....

President Obama Encouraged to Take His Message to Blacks

By: Michael H. Cottman

As President Barack Obama’s approval ratings continue to plummet as a result of the raging health care debate, some black professionals in Washington, D.C. are getting frustrated -- and a bit fired up.

According to The Los Angeles Times, “the president's overall approval now stands at 57 percent, down 12 points from April. Disapproval has jumped to 40 percent, the highest of his seven months in office.”

So there’s one pressing question that many African-Americans in D.C. are asking: Are black people actually being polled?

President Obama Encouraged to Take His Message to Blacks....

Mr. President, While You Were Out

Republicans tried to kill health care. (P.S., see governors, Virginia and New Jersey.)

By: Terence Samuel

President Barack Obama and his family are on vacation and, for a while anyway, the angry, disfigured faces of the health care town halls have faded from the news. But we know what’s waiting for him when he gets back—more of the same—and so far he hasn’t been handling it well. Supporters are urging him to fight, and some of us are expecting that pretty soon he will don his explainer-in-chief cape and put the whole health care debate to rest with a definitive explanation of why failure is not an option.

But so far, not so good. The problems are dramatically evident in the president’s retreating poll numbers; his job approval rating was down to 51 percent in August from 57 percent a month earlier in the most recent Quinnipiac Poll. On his handling of health care, 52 percent say they disapprove—up 10 points from a 42 percent disapproval rating last month. That growing antipathy toward the president may also be showing in the poll numbers in the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, and the White House would be wise not to underestimate the damage losing one or both of those races would do to Obama’s legislative agenda.

Mr. President, While You Were Out....

Analysis: Health Care Endgame Near but Uncertain

By: Charles Babington

WASHINGTON (AP) — With hopes growing ever dimmer for a bipartisan accord, White House and Democratic leaders are considering a wide range of strategies for getting a health care bill passed when Congress returns from its summer recess.

Some are blunt. Some are complex and technical. All are problematic.

Analysis: Health Care Endgame Near but Uncertain....

Quit Playing Nice, Obama - Just Get Things Done

By: Deborah Mathis

I am loathe to give President Obama my two cents’ worth on practically any topic because he and his key advisors are conspicuously savvy - Exhibit A being the very fact that he is President Obama and not “former presidential contender” Obama. That took some strategic chops that I don’t have.

So, I will present my advice as a “wish,” as in, “I wish President Obama would get off this bipartisanship kick and use his political advantages to do what he know he needs to do.”

Quit Playing Nice, Obama - Just Get Things Done....

Obama Assails Lies About Health Care Reform

By: Michael H. Cottman

President Barack Obama traveled to New Hampshire Tuesday to pitch his controversial health care reform directly to Americans, while also countering conservative activists who have turned recent Democratic forums into shouting matches and fist fights.

"For all the scare tactics out there, what is truly scary is if we do nothing," Obama told a crowd of about 1,800 in Portsmouth.

Obama Assails Lies About Health Care Reform....

Town Hall Bullies More Traitors Than Patriots

By: Deborah Mathis

It takes no more than a scroll of the “comments” section after any news story posted online to know that there are some seriously angry, seriously embittered, seriously disturbed people in these United States.

Notwithstanding its many good qualities and advantages, the Internet most certainly has its downsides, and one of them is its easy accessibility as a forum for folks who, in the old days, had to stifle or fight or swallow their demons rather than loose them under the effective anonymity of a username.

Then, again, maybe that’s a good thing too. Who knows what some of these people-haters might be doing if they didn’t have that outlet? Maybe hook up with one of those hell raising groups that are shutting down Democratic town hall after town hall?

Town Hall Bullies More Traitors Than Patriots....

President Obama's Primetime Press Conference on Health Reform

President Obama delivers remarks at a primetime press conference focused on health insurance reform, before taking questions from the media. The President explains how his plan will benefit every American, and where the plan currently stands.

Obama Takes on Health Care Reform, Gates' Arrest

By: Michael H. Cottman

President Barack Obama told Americans Wednesday night that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts “acted stupidly” in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates last week during a heated dispute inside Gates’ home.

"I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played," Obama said during a prime-time news conference at the White House in response to a question from the Chicago Sun Times' Lynn Sweet.

Obama acknowledged that Gates is "a friend” and admitted he may be "a little biased" about his opinion of the situation.

Obama Takes on Health Care Reform, Gates' Arrest....

Weekly Address: Health Care Reform Cannot Wait

The President calls on Congress to seize this opportunity one that may not come again for decades and finally pass health care reform: Its about every family unable to keep up with soaring out of pocket costs and premiums rising three times faster than wages. Every worker afraid of losing health insurance if they lose their job, or change jobs. Everyone whos worried that they may not be able to get insurance or change insurance if someone in their family has a pre-existing condition July 18, 2009.

Weekly Address: Recovery and the Jobs of the Future

The President explains how the Recovery Act helped end our economic free fall, and how his agenda is helping to set a new foundation for our economy. From health reform, to energy, to creating the jobs of the future, the Presidents proposals will make our economy stronger for both the current generations and our children, all in a way that will get our deficits under control.

Weekly Address: Health Care Reform, the Key to Our Fiscal Future

The President has long noted that skyrocketing health care costs will be disastrous for our long term national debt unless we pass real reform. In this Weekly Address, the President also explains how he will cover the upfront costs of reform by eliminating overpayments to Medicaid and Medicare and driving down costs contributing to governments health care expenditures across the board.