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Article about government mandated heath care, how it is constitutional and the possible punishments for not participating.

Issues with the new law that makes it mandatory for every U.S. citizen to have health insurance. This article talks about the controversy and how it goes against the constitution.

This short article is an update showing that 2.5 million more young adults have health care because of the Affordable Care Act that took effect in September 2010. These numbers will just keep increasing because these young adults can stay on their parents health care plan until they are 26, then afterwards can't be denied.

After decades of failed attempts by a string of Democratic presidents and a year of bitter partisan combat, President Obama signed legislation on March 23, 2010 to overhaul the nation's health care system and guarantee access to medical insurance for tens of millions of Americans.

Discusses the changes with the healthcare reform that was passed by Obama.

Arizona has a bill awaiting the state's House approval that would give any employer the option to not offer employees contraception. This bill is meant to protect the businesses that have a religious or moral objection to birth control.

It's frightening to listen to our governor talk about this bill. Scary!

Explains that when Obama care takes effect religious organizations will not have to provide coverage if it offends their beliefs. Instead under the health care act the insurers will be the offering birth control and doing so free of charge.

A proposed new law in Arizona would give employers the power to request that women being prescribed birth control pills provide proof that they're using it for non-sexual reasons. And because Arizona's an at-will employment state, that means that bosses critical of their female employees' sex lives could fire them as a result. I like that this article gets down to the nit and grit of what an outlandish claim everyone is making against birth control. This article is explaining how invasive this policy is to allow employers to decide on whether to provide insurance for birth control.

This proposed bill actually says that an employer can ask to see a doctors note saying that the woman is perscribed birth control, but has to be for other reasons than not wanting to get pregnant.

WASHINGTON - President Obama's compromise plan to require free insurance coverage of contraceptives for women touched off a tumultuous debate on Thursday in which members of Congress mixed political theater with soul-searching over potential threats to religious liberty.

Part time employees are not being offered benefits. Instead of give them more hours to become full time, employers just hire more employees.

This website talks about how 7 out of 10 American deaths are caused by chronic diseases and how chronic diseases are responsible for 75% of our nation's health spending. Also explained, is how most of these chronic diseases are preventable.

The Constitution states that the government can not force Americans to purchase anything, including healthcare coverage. But can they constitutionally force you to pay a penalty tax for not purchasing health insurance?

This website explains the effect the law is having on Adjunts. Their credit hours are being cut so that employers don't have to provide insurance.

Obama will take away our personal freedom by forcing us to get insurance even if not needed. Businesses will end up paying an additional 10 % of tax.

This guy has some interesting ideas. Ending the war on drugs by legalizing drugs and taxing them for profit and allowing people to consume or not consume anything they choose seems a bit extreme. I do agree that a rebalance of taxes would benefit the hard working middle class families.

A really good article with a lot of good ideas. I especially liked the idea about fixing the infrastructure. I saw a special a few years ago talking about how the infrastructure was deteriorating and I can only imagine it's gotten worse.

This articale is about the deteriorating health care coverage for the mentally ill. Although parity mandates have been put into place to prevent erosion of coverage, research has been showing a decline in coverage compared to the general public.

This site talks about how the new Federal HIPAA law protects patients privacy regarding personal health information. Rules have been set as to who can view medical records without the patients approval. This includes health insurance companies, HMO's, and health care providers.

We all know that cell phone use while driving creates distractions. Are we aware of what the costs are due to the accidents created by this distraction? Once you read this information my bet is that many cell phone use behaviors will change.

The day after the House approved the healthcare bill, a reporter asked White House spokesman Robert Gibbs about the lawsuits some states were threatening against the legislation on the grounds that the provision forcing all Americans to buy health insurance was unconstitutional.

Overview of the bill and what it contains. goes into more detail as to what is involved.

This article clarifies how Obamacare helps middle and lower class families. There are many ways that Obamacare assists in providing affordable healthcare, all of which are illustrated in the law signed by Obama on March 23, 2012 and one of them is by charging a 10% tax charge to tanning locations. There are so many changes that are in effect today due the law and more that are to become effective on October 1, 2013.

We need Planned Parenthood. ObamaCare's expansion of coverage options provides free sexual and reproductive health services, but millions fall in the Medicaid gap in states that didn't expand Medicaid, and millions more have yet to get coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace.