A national group is urging President Barack Obama to push Congress to make “meaningful reform” to the National Flood Insurance Program when he gives his State of the Union Address.

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.”

The National Association of Health Underwriters, which represents health insurance agents across the nation — took some exception to remarks made by President Obama in his State of the Union …  Read →

During his State of the Union speech, President Obama seemed to give little ground on his push for health care reform. And not a piecemeal approach, as I had predicted …  Read →

Maryland’s Democrat-dominated Congressional delegation praised President Obama‘s State of the Union address for taking on controversial issues, including gays in the military, and not giving up on health care.

Health care reform was front and center the first time President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress last year, but moved to the background in his latest address Wednesday night (Jan. 27) as he instead focused on jobs and the nation’s economy.

In his first remarks to a joint session of Congress in a pseudo-State of the Union address, President Obama vowed that health care reform would come within a year, but …  Read →