Election 2012: Obamacare Vs. Romneycare
Source: THE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTOR
The United States Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of a key component of the Affordable Care Act by the end of June when the court concludes their current session. That key component is the individual mandate and it is found in both Obama’s Affordable Care Act and Romney’s Massachusetts health care insurance reform law. There are many similarities between the two laws that include: the ways in which the two laws limit the factors that insurers can use to determine premiums, the creation of new individual insurance marketplaces that are used to offer policies to customers, and the different “tiers” of insurance coverage plans. Obamacare and Romneycare are both large government seizures of power over the health insurance market and Romneycare is a template for what eventually became Obamacare.
Will Hispanic voters swing the 2012 race?
Editor's note: Charles Garcia is the CEO of Garcia Trujillo, a business focused on the Hispanic market, and the author of "Leadership Lessons of the White House Fellows." A native of the Republic of Panama, he now lives in Florida. Watch Garcia on Friday in the 9 a.m. hour on CNN Newsroom.
(CNN) -- Former Gov. Jeb Bush recently argued in an op-ed that Hispanic voters will represent the margin of victory in the 15 swing states that will decide who will win the race for the White House. Is his political intuition right? And if it is, how do both parties significantly increase their chances of winning the Hispanic vote?
Determining what qualifies as a swing state is not an exact science, but the best estimate nine months out is as follows: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Quiara Alegria Hudes wins Pulitzer Prize for drama
By MARK KENNEDY, AP Drama Writer
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Andy Blankenbuehler.
photo by Aubrey Reuben
NEW YORK (AP) — Quiara Alegria Hudes's play "Water by the Spoonful," about an Iraq war veteran struggling to find his place in the world, has won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
The play, which was produced last fall at Hartford (Conn.) Stage Company, was called an "imaginative play about the search for meaning" by the Columbia University's prize board.
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