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Lawmakers weigh reversals on budget cuts
Arizona legislators are poised to take up unfinished business related to the state budget and the federal health care overhaul.
83 bills signed so far, three vetoed
Gov. Jan Brewer on April 16 signed 25 bills, including legislation allowing most Arizonans to carry concealed weapons without permits, and a bill creating a one-year pilot program for the Department of Public Safety to use motion-detecting seismic sensors in rural areas where illegal immigration and cross-border drug trafficking are prevalent.
Arizona tea party groups protest gov’t intrusion
Tea party groups planned rallies across Arizona on Thursday to protest what they see as the federal government trampling on the rights of states and citizens.
GOP takes aim at hospitals with competing health care measure
Republican lawmakers angry at a proposed ballot initiative backed by Arizona hospitals that would raise taxes for the wealthiest residents to pay for some health care programs are fighting back by proposing to instead tax hospitals and other providers.
Demonstrators: Health care funding cuts would hurt business
A plan to cut $800 million next fiscal year from state programs providing health care would cost tens of thousands of jobs, and the losses would extend far beyond those in the health care field, business leaders said Feb. 24.
Digging the hole deeper: Too many tax cuts hurting Arizona
As the Legislature debates proposals to raise taxes and proposals to cut taxes, how many Arizonans realize state taxes have been cut over and over again during the past two decades to the point that now our the state budget loses $1.5 billion a year?
ASU professor brings health care expertise to reform effort
Earlier this year, ASU professor Marjorie Baldwin contributed to the national debate regarding health care reform, advocating incremental changes and warning against rushing into a broad, public health care system that covers everybody.
Brewer to Baucus: No more health care mandates
As U.S. Sen. Max Baucus strives to reach a middle ground on changes to the nation’s health care system, Gov. Jan Brewer is urging him not to place an undue... […]
‘Obamacare’ means more big government
President Obama has achieved the impossible. On Sept. 9, Obama went before the American people and achieved something even I thought was impossible. Obamacare 2.0 has more big government than Version 1.0. The voters of southern Arizona should be cautious. Let's analyze a few aspects of the repackaged Obamacare.
Health insurance options are available
I just wanted to make a comment out of pure frustration. I keep reading/hearing from the president to Rep. Harry Mitchell and to other so-called experts of health care reform about people losing coverage when their COBRA ends.
Affordable universal health coverage achievable
We all want the same thing: protection from catastrophic illness and the security of affordable health coverage in the future. To their credit, Americans have read the bills working their way through Congress and are objecting to the health care rationing and control over their health care quality and decisions.
Arizona delegation responds to Obama health care speech
President Obama on Sept. 9 offered what could be his administration's last direct attempt to convince Americans to rally around his health care plan, offering an outline Democrats found encouraging. But even as Democrats hope for a new wind on health care, Republicans were largely unswayed, with Arizona Rep. Trent Franks calling the address "divorced from reality completely."
