Obama offers governors some flexibility on healthcare law
The president says he backs a change that would let states act sooner to develop alternative plans to expand coverage.
Offering increased flexibility to the nation’s governors, President Obama announced Monday that he supported changing the 2010 healthcare law to allow states to move sooner to develop their own alternative plans to expand coverage.
Video: Haley Barbour: Governors want more control of Medicaid
Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) responded to remarks President Obama made to the National Governors Association Monday. The rumored 2012 presidential candidate said governors would like to have more control of Medicaid, as Obama hit on. “The difference of what gets said and what gets done has to be resolved.”
Video: Gov. Christie responds to Obama
Gov. Chris Christie (R- N.J.) responded to remarks the President made to the National Governors Association Monday in which Obama supported proposes to changes to health care reform. “Candidly, I may not even be governor in 2014 so the fact that he’s offering flexibility in 2014 is really of no moment to most governors,” Christie said.
Video: Obama cracks Oscars joke
President Obama hosted the Governors Ball at the White House Sunday and joked that if his remarks ran too long, he’d be cut off by music, just like at the Academy Awards held on the same night.
Obama goes for middle on health care
President Barack Obama tried to seize the political middle in the continuing fight over health care reform Monday, telling a group of governors that he’s willing to provide states more flexibility in their implementation of the overhaul signed into law last year.
Egypt AG forbids Mubarak from leaving
Egypt’s attorney general issued an order freezing the assets of former President Hosni Mubarak and his family and prohibiting them from leaving the country.
Obama endorses key change to healthcare law
President Obama signs on to a bipartisan plan that would let states opt out of federal requirements three years earlier than slated in the original reform law.
President Obama endorsed a significant change to his health reform law Monday, signing on to bipartisan legislation that would allow states to opt out of federal requirements — including the individual mandate — three years earlier than scheduled.
Video: Obama to govs: Feel at home, unless considering 2012 run
President Obama told governors visiting the White House Monday that they should feel at home, unless considering a 2012 presidential run. White House travel pool reports indicate that Obama may have been pointing at Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a rumored 2012 Republican nominee,m when he cracked the joke.
Obama, speaking out on Wisconsin labor standoff, says public employees should not lose rights
President Obama, addressing the National Governors Assn., says it does no good ‘when public employees are denigrated or vilified or their rights are infringed upon.’ In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker says if wayward Democrats don’t return in 24 hours, the state will lose a chance to save $165 million.
President Obama on Monday waded into the labor standoff in Wisconsin and warned that the rights of public employees should not be infringed upon.
Yemen opposition rejects unity call
Yemen’s main opposition bloc on Monday rejected President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s call to form a unity government to rule until elections to replace him, saying its goal is simply “the fall of the regime.”
