All posts tagged "health care"

This is the third in a series of columns summarizing my Controller’s Annual Report (CAR) for fiscal...

(Jim Clark) – Stories such as Donald Trump’s town meeting being disrupted by protestors and Hillary Clinton’s marathon examination by the Congressional Benghazi Committee tend to dominate the political news, eclipsing the other candidates of both parties who are not deemed newsworthy on any given day. So what can we, voters, learn about where the candidates...

(Thomas Mitchell) – How in the world can anyone expect that a majority of an increasingly degenerate people...

(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – Few decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court have captured the public interest as did...

(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – A letter from 12 U.S. Senators and 61 members of the House to the nation’s governors asking them to oppose the creation of health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act comes too late to have any effect in Nevada. No members of Nevada’s Congressional delegation signed the...

  (Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) It seems our former constitutional law professor of a president has again leveled a bit of criticism toward the robed ladies and gentlemen of the highest court in the land. In a press conference Monday, Obama made pointed reference to an “unelected group of people,” meaning the court....

(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebeliustoday announced Affordable Care Act grant awards of $3.96 million to Nevada to help fight what she calls unreasonable premium increases. Today the agency also released a new report entitled Rate Review Works detailing how previous rate...

Another day, another tax increase to finance the trillion-dollar health-care overhaul. The latest schemes are leaking out of the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid is scrambling to find enough money while not offending Big Labor. The Senate Finance bill imposes a 40% tax on expensive private health plans, many of which...

As the health care debate morphs momentarily into an argument over whether federal money should be used for abortion, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s every move is being watched. Days after the House voted to include stricter abortion restrictions in the health care bill, nearly 50,000 abortion rights supporters urged Reid in...