Healthcare overhaul had been iffy in the polls throughout the past year’s arduous negotiations on Capitol Hill. But now that it has passed, Democrats are banking that as the public learns what is actually in the law and what gets implemented in the first year of the law, the public quickly will warm to it. [...]
March 24 2010 | Posted in Money and Politics | Read More »
Great news, everybody! After delighting in last night’s historic vote to extend healthcare coverage to nearly all Americans while simultaneously lowering the long-term deficit, I put my Democratic voter registration card under my pillow and went to bed. Lo and behold, I woke up this morning to find that my acne had cleared, my seasonal [...]
March 22 2010 | Posted in Money and Politics | Read More »
U.S. Rep. Ahn “Joseph” Cao, who represents most of New Orleans, still has not decided whether he will vote for or against President Obama’s historic healthcare reform bill. As, I wrote yesterday, his objections to the bill pivot on his belief that the Senate version of the healthcare reform bill has loopholes that permit the [...]
March 17 2010 | Posted in Money and Politics | Read More »
In November, U.S. Rep. Ahn “Joseph” Cao, who represents most of New Orleans, bucked his party and was the lone Republican vote for the House of Representatives version of the healthcare bill, after aligning himself with anti-abortion Democrats. Negotiated by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., the “Stupak amendment” was restrictive enough to allay the concerns of [...]
March 17 2010 | Posted in Money and Politics | Read More »