The U.S. House voted 238-183 to strip the funding included in last year’s federal health reform law for states to establish health insurance exchanges.

President Barack Obama took aim at the Republicans’ budget proposal for next year, saying their planned cuts to Medicaid and Medicare paint a “deeply pessimistic” view of the nation.

WASHINGTON – With the ink barely dry on various 2012 federal budget proposals, the Maryland congressional delegation began working on shaping the final product this week.

House Republicans hope to pass a spending measure next week, which includes blocking funding for federal health care reform, to trim the federal budget deficit.

The U.S. Senate, as expected, flexed its Democratic majority to vote down a bill repealing the federal health reform law that U.S. House Republicans approved last month.

If Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are going to offer a replacement to the federal health reform law, insurance agents favor efforts to save their commissions and eliminate mandates, according to the latest IFAwebnews.com poll.

President Barack Obama said he would consider congressional suggestions to “improve” the health reform law passed last year, which he said is preventing health insurers from “exploiting patients.”

Now that the U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), some in the media are saying that this vote was empty since the Democratic controlled Senate would not concur. I respectfully disagree.

The U.S. House of Representatives, led by Republicans since the midterm elections last November, voted to repeal the $1.2 trillion health reform law passed by congressional Democrats last year.

A repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) would restrict access to affordable health insurance, “burden” small businesses with skyrocketing health care costs and “explode” national and state deficits, government officials say.