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....

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....

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....

Weekly Address: Health Insurance Reform, Small Business and Your Questions

The President discusses a key factor that has been considered in the development of the health insurance reform proposals that are being considered: the impact of reform on small business. Go to WhiteHouse.gov to read a new Council of Economic Advisers report and give your feedback.

Weekly Address: President Obama Calls for Real Health Care Reform

The President makes clear that as Congress works through health care reform legislation, it must include fundamental changes that lower costs, ensure Americans have choices, and establish access to quality, affordable health care for all Americans. But what we cant welcome, the President says, is reform that just invests more money in the status quo reform that throws good money after bad habits.

Obama Talks Up Health Care in Black Community, While McCain Surrogates Get Meaner

By: Michael H. Cottman

For thousands of uninsured black Americans who are struggling to get access to quality health care, Barack Obama says he’s got your back.

“Health care is especially important for the African-American community,” Obama told black journalists in a conference call Thursday. “It’s one more reason why this is a critical election. We’re long overdue for crafting a health care system that will benefit all Americans.”

The Obama campaign is pushing its comprehensive health care plan at a time when an Associated Press poll shows that 78 percent of voters rate health care as at least a very important issue, behind the economy and Iraq.

Obama Talks Up Health Care in Black Community....