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Obama’s Nuclear Policy, Something For The ‘Left & Right’ (Los Angeles Times)
President Obama and his senior aides introduced a new nuclear weapons policy Tuesday with the promise that America would no longer build new nuclear weapons.
“No new testing, no new warheads,” Marine Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pledged in a Pentagon briefing.
Yet officials said later that the policy could allow [...]
Obama Now Says “Drill, Baby, Drill! Article And Video Looking At His Stunning Reversal (Huffington Post)
President Obama announced today a new energy policy that will open up waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and part of Alaska to offshore oil and gas drilling.
The new policy represents a reversal not only of the current moratorium on any new oil drilling off most U.S. shores, but also [...]
BIG QUESTION: Will The Middle Class Really Pay Less For Health Care? (USA Today)
President Obama’s restructuring of the nation’s health care system will make it easier for poor and sick Americans to get and keep insurance. What’s less clear is whether it will reduce health care costs for most Americans, as the White House says it will.
Medical costs are rising fast — up 5.7% last year, while the [...]
NOW THEY TELL US: Nonpartisan CBO Reports Deficit Will Be Much Worse Than Obama Says (MONEYNEWS.COM)
A new congressional report released Friday says the United States’ long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama’s grim budget submission last month.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts that Obama’s budget plans would generate deficits over the upcoming decade that would total $9.8 trillion. That’s $1.2 trillion more than predicted by [...]
Health Overhaul Likely To Strain Doctor Shortage (AP & Yahoo! News)
Better beat the crowd and find a doctor.
Primary care physicians already are in short supply in parts of the country, and the landmark health overhaul that will bring them millions more newly insured patients in the next few years promises extra strain.
The new law goes beyond offering coverage to the uninsured, with steps to improve [...]
OBAMACARE UPDATE: Some States Winners, Some States Losers (Yahoo! News/CSM)
Under the nation’s healthcare reform plan, the nation’s Medicaid system will grow as one of the main organizations to implement the goal of expanded medical coverage.
But it appears that, from a financial standpoint, some states will be winners and some will be losers in this new arrangement.
Here’s a look at why some states may stand [...]
‘HEALTH-CARE FOR EVERYONE’, UNLESS YOUR A SICK CHILD. PROBLEMS ALREADY WITH OBAMACARE (KAISER HEALTH NEWS)
Clotie Robinson has tried for four years to buy health coverage for her 8-year-old daughter who suffers from depression and other mental illnesses, but she’s been consistently rejected by insurance companies.
As a result, Robinson has been unable to pay for some medicines and medical tests her daughter needs.
The DeSoto, Texas, mom had hoped the new [...]
CBO Now Reports Health Care Bill Will Leave 23 Million Uninsured. Not Exactly ‘Coverage For All’ Mr. Obama (NPR)
When President Obama signed health care overhaul into law Tuesday, did he fulfill a campaign promise to “bring health care to all?”
The short answer is no. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the overhaul law, as it expected to be amended by House fixes, would eventually cover 32 million more Americans. But that would leave 23 [...]
AND WHILE YOU WERE BEING DISTRACTED BY HEALTH CARE: Mr. Geithner Warns Unemployment Will Stay High in 2010 (DailyFinance.com)
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other top economic officials in the Obama administration say that, while they expect some improvement this spring, 2010 will probably remain a rough year for Americans looking for work.
In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, Geithner read a joint statement — which he prepared with Christina Romer, [...]
Victorious Obama Signs Historic Health-Care Bill (AP / Yahoo! News)
A beaming President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a historic $938 billion health care overhaul that guarantees coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans and will touch nearly every citizen’s life, presiding over the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s and capping a divisive, yearlong debate that could define the November elections.
Celebrating “a [...]
