President Barack Obama’s proposed federal budget for 2014 has ignited a controversy over a proposal that would reduce tax benefits for reinsurance premiums paid to foreign affiliates by domestic insurance companies.

Now that it has survived a Supreme Court challenge and, apparently, a presidential election, there appears little to stop full implementation of Obamacare, President Barack Obama’s signature legislation.

A senior advisor to Barack Obama says the president wants to overhaul the federal income tax code as a means of building his political base as he heads toward a political showdown with Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney.

Rep. Paul Ryan’s plans for cutting federally funded health insurance are a good idea, according to half of respondents to the latest IFAwebnews.com poll.

Raise your hand if you don’t know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid – the three largest budget expenditures by the federal government – are each approaching the edge of fiscal Armageddon.

The majority of people say that federal health reform is not the most important factor in deciding who should be president, according to the latest IFAwebnews.com poll.

The U.S. House voted 244-185 to repeal the federal health reform law, Republican’s 33rd attempt to quash the law and the first since the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the law’s constitutionality.

The U.S. House, with its Republican majority, is scheduled to vote for the 33rd time today (July 11) on a bill to repeal the federal health reform law.

President Barack Obama reaffirmed on July 9 that he wants to end Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, but extend for one year tax cuts in place for the middle class.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said July 4 that the fee imposed on those who don’t buy health insurance is a “tax,” not a penalty.