Monthly Archive: January 2013
Unions Worried about ObamaCare’s Impact ask WH for Subsidies, cite promise “if you like your plan you can keep it”
From the WSJ “Some Unions Grow Wary of Health Law they Backed“: John Wilhelm, chairman of Unite Here Health, the insurance plan for 260,000 union workers at places including hotels, casinos and airports, recalls...
CQ: Record Deposits in HSAs in 2012
From CQ’s Healthbeat by Jane Norman: “EBRI: Workers Banking Higher Balances in HSAs and HRAs,” “There was $17.8 billion socked away in HSAs and HRAs in 2012, distributed among 11.6 million accounts, according to...
The GOP is Completely Unprepared for the Political Offensive Obama has Planned for 2014
From “Obama’s Eyes are on 2014,” and even a rudimentary understanding of what happened in the 2012 election means that Obama is facing a weakened and strategically disadvantaged enemy: “His apparent two-year strategy is...
Obama: “We don’t have a spending problem. We have a healthcare problem.”
From The Hill: “In our meetings before Christmas, the president was so tired of me talking about when we were going to deal with an entitlement crisis that he looked at me and said:...
National Journal: Senate Dems Face Legislative Pressure from White House Political Arm
From the National Journal: Making things more complicated for the White House is that, perhaps for the last time, the majority-makers in this cycle’s Senate class hail from the declining moderate-to-conservative wing of the...
Obama: “We Are Made For This Moment, And We Will Seize It” (Video of Complete Inauguration Address)
I attended both inaugurations of President Obama on the mall, as a citizen. Both times the jumbotron was broken. In case you missed his speech, like me, here it is: