Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Pennsylvania will join other GOP-led states putting the Affordable Care Act mandate back in federal hands.
According to the Associated Press (AP), Gov. Corbett announced on Wednesday that Pennsylvania will not be setting up its own healthcare exchanges as mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The responsibility for the exchange now falls back to the federal government. Corbett reportedly blamed federal authorities for the move, saying they didn't provide adequate answers to questions about how the exchange will be paid for and other details. See the pdf section for a letter the governor wrote to U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding the decision. "Health care reform is too important to be achieved through haphazard planning," Corbett said, according to the AP. "Pennsylvania taxpayers and …
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senators release reactions to the ruling.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as "Obamacare," upholding the constitutionality of the act in a ruling Thursday morning, according to a report from the Supreme Court website. Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senators released reactions to the ruling. Sen. Pat Toomey (R): “I am extremely disappointed. Today’s decision is a jarring blow to our 200-year-old tradition of constitutionally limited government and personal liberty,” Toomey said. “ The Supreme Court’s decision doesn’t change the fact that President Obama’s health care law is a terrible policy that will impose new taxes, increase the cost of health care and cost our country jobs. It is now up to Congress to repeal Obamacare and enact common-…
Friday, June 1, 2012
Four Christian women protested outside Corpus Christi Church Wednesday against the proposed contraception mandate
The right to free exercise of religion is stated there in black and brown in the U.S. Constitution. But American Christians nationwide are using the freedom of assembly and petition to get the word out against an HHS mandate under the Affordable Care Act. One such assembly against what is believed to be an attack on religious freedom occurs every Wednesday on the grounds of Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Upper Gwynedd along Sumneytown Pike. That is where Carolyn Stenger, of Schwenksville, and three other peers were protesting Wednesday from noon to 3 p.m. They will return there every Wednesday, same time, and on Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. "We are outside to evangelize and protect religious freedom," said Stenger, who said Corpus …
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Has anyone learned their lesson from the health care debate?
Republicans blew their biggest opportunity of the new Congress. Two weeks into the Republican led House of Representatives, the American people should have expected a slightly more progressive approach than what we’ve seen in the past. That did not happen. We all know that for weeks, Republicans advertised their plan to attempt to repeal last year’s health care reform, the Affordable Care Act. However, with last week’s shooting in Tucson and President Obama’s speech about changing the climate and the way politics are done, it appeared that people were going to approach things differently on the Hill and be a little more straight up with regards to policy. After all, Democrats in the Senate made it clear they were not going to allow this …
Tim Lewis
5:52 pm on Friday, December 14, 2012
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