Published: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 12:01 a.m. They said efforts to enlarge training programs, expand enrollment in college engineering and computer science courses and reform workers compensation, as desired by the industry, are all on the table for action in the final weeks of the legislative session. But with a budget shortfall, and political differences between the House and Senate, they may not all get done unless the aerospace leaders inject themselves aggressively into the debate, lawmakers cautioned. Continue reading
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Today @NCCapitol: Health care, unemployment, and the Red Route
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Nobel goal for new UMass Medical School research center
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Budget struggle raising anxiety for health care
WASHINGTON Confused about the federal budget struggle? So are doctors, hospital administrators and other medical professionals who serve the 100 million Americans covered by Medicare and Medicaid. Rarely has the government sent so many conflicting signals in so short a time about the bottom line for the health care industry Continue reading
Can’t Afford Healthcare? Obamacare ‘On the Table’ – Video
Can't Afford Healthcare? Obamacare'On the Table' “After Mitt Romney lost on Election Day, it appeared that the health care law was here to stay. States are scrambling to meet federally-imposed deadlines to implement state exchanges and the administration announced coverage mandates Continue reading
Improvements sought for health insurance law
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Health Care Push Is Here
WASHINGTON (AP) – The long slog has turned into a sprint. Continue reading
Obama's health care overhaul turns into a sprint
WASHINGTON The long slog has turned into a sprint. President Barack Obama’s health care law survived the Supreme Court and the election; now the uninsured can sign up for coverage in about 11 months. Even the government’s top-ranking Republican, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, said Thursday that “Obamacare is the law of the land.” But not all hurdles have been cleared. Continue reading
Health Law's Downfall Could Put GOP In Odd Spot
The Supreme Court will rule in the coming weeks on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act the health care law that has been a flashpoint of partisan acrimony and debate since its beginning. Much of that debate has been philosophical. But now that the law is under review by the country’s highest court, politicians have to plan for the real implications of the court’s decision Continue reading
Health care overhaul will reduce deficits, Congressional Budget Office finds
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul will reduce, rather than increase, the nation’s huge federal deficits during the next decade, Congress’ nonpartisan budget scorekeepers said Tuesday, supporting Obama’s contention in a major election-year dispute with Republicans. Republicans insist the plan will raise deficits — by trillions, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney says. But that’s not true, the Congressional Budget Office said Continue reading
Libertarian leader faces charge
The Kentucky-based head of a libertarian super PAC that spent more than $500,000 in a Northern Kentucky congressional primary this year is due in court Wednesday on a felony charge related to a drunken-driving arrest last year. Preston Bates, 23, the executive director of Liberty for All, refused to give a corrections officer any personal information other than his name and then said that he was an anarchist when he was arrested last July near the University of Louisville. According to the arrest report, Bates pulled up to a residence on Bellamy Place at 3 a.m Continue reading
Health Care On Agenda When State Lawmakers Return
LANSING (AP) – Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and his fellow Republicans could find themselves knee-deep in health care issues Thursday when lawmakers briefly return after a five-week break. Continue reading
GOP says health care repeal also stops a tax
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans pushed an election-year vote Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, casting it as not only a rejection of an unpopular law but a surefire way to block a tax on the middle class. “The intent of the president’s health care law was to lower costs and help create jobs. One congressional leader promised it would create 400,000 jobs,” said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio Continue reading
Boehner defends Romney over health care ruling
(CBS News) In an interview on “Face the Nation,” House Speaker John Boehner said he was surprised that the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionally of the health care mandate, but he defended Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s opposition to it, even though the former Massachusetts governor also passed a mandate in his state. “This is an issue that was in Massachusetts – one state,” Boehner said. Continue reading
Eugenics verification program suspended
Published 11:14am Friday, June 22, 2012 RALEIGH Without funding the process cannot continue. Due to the joint budget agreement to exclude funding for compensation for victims of the states former Eugenics Board program, as well as continuation funding for operation of the N.C. Continue reading
No money for eugenics compensation in budget, local victim not giving up hope
Submitted by Marissa Jasek on Wed, 06/20/2012 – 10:42pm.READ MORE: No money for eugenics compensation in budget, local victim not giving up hope WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Compensation for victims of the North Carolina eugenics program was cut from next year’s budget. Victims of forced sterilization were supposed to get $50,000 each after a panel approved a $10 million compensation package. A few weeks ago, the first serious proposal to compensate eugenics victims seemed like a done deal Continue reading
The wrong ‘chip’
To his credit, Republican state House Speaker Thom Tillis has become a strong supporter of North Carolina making payments to victims of the states long-running eugenics program, in which some of those judged to be mentally deficient in some way were sterilized involuntarily. Continue reading
Eugenics compensation winds through legislature
A bill to compensate the more than 130 victims of the states early and mid-20th Century sterilization program 19 of whom resided in Lenoir County is winding its way through the legislature. The bill passed the N.C. House this month 86-31 with strong bipartisan support Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis of Mecklenburg County was among the 35 GOP members who voted with House Democrats on House Bill 947, the Eugenics Compensation Program. Continue reading
Obama Aides Helped Plan Ads to Back Health Bill, GOP Says
By Drew Armstrong – 2012-06-09T04:00:00Z House Republicans say a drugmaker- funded advertising campaign run by supposedly independent groups was part of an agreement with the Obama administration to help pass the U.S. Continue reading
NC House approves Eugenics compensation
Published 11:09am Friday, June 8, 2012 RALEIGH A bill to compensate victims of the states former Eugenics Board program was passed Tuesday (June 5) by House members and now advances to the Senate. The House version of the proposed legislation includes Gov. Continue reading