WASHINGTON – Arizona lawmakers split straight down party lines Wednesday as the House voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, less than two weeks after it was upheld by the Supreme Court.

Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., is justifiably crowing about a small but significant victory in his long-running fight to unburden the overly restricted health-insurance industry, and thus reduce the coverage gap by bringing premiums down.

Boy, do I feel sorry for smokers these days.

More than a year after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health care experts who gathered in Glendale Friday said the law continues to evolve. “This is a very fluid piece of legislation,” said Ruthann Laswick of Black, Gould & Associates. “HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) is constantly making clarifications. What you’re told one day could be completely different a few days later because their interpretation has changed.”

More than a year after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health care experts who gathered in Glendale Friday said the law continues to evolve. “This is a very fluid piece of legislation,” said Ruthann Laswick of Black, Gould & Associates. “HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) is constantly making clarifications. What you’re told one day could be completely different a few days later because their interpretation has changed.”

I am writing this letter to respond to a letter published in the Arizona Republic last week, but since I am not aware of any e-mail address to the editor of the Republic, I will write to the Tribune.

When my neighbor, who operates a small business, had a stroke, the first thing that came to mind as paramedics wheeled him away was, "Does he have health insurance?"

If spending more than $100 million on players and failing to make the playoffs isn’t embarrassing enough for the Knicks, this Big Apple circus will add another ring in the fall.

We can all stop pretending continued Republican anger about the Affordable Care Act is news. Some figured a Supreme Court ruling would settle things. And since the GOP said it was unconstitutional with the same fervor as people who’ve read the Constitution—it was easy to assume a decision from the nine justices in the highest court in the land—regardless of the outcome—would chill them out.

Another excellent column and realistic perspective by Jon Beydler (“Obamacare,” Sept. 24). The supposed majority who oppose the Affordable Care Act are being whipped into a frenzy by professional misinformation politicos, and once again, the majority is falling for it.

I am astounded that the EVT would publish the commentary by Susan Stamper Brown regarding the Affordable Care Act. I fully understand everyone’s right to free speech, but this commentary is so full of falsehoods, innuendo, half-truth, and outright lies as to be a farce. Publishing this commentary is pretty much the same as supporting the right to yell fire in a crowded theater.

WASHINGTON — Some are already anticipating the Supreme Court's ruling on President Barack Obama's health care law as the "decision of the century." But the justices are unlikely to have the last word on America's tangled efforts to address health care woes. The problems of high medical costs, widespread waste, and tens of millions of people without insurance will require Congress and the president to keep looking for answers, whether or not the Affordable Care Act passes the test of constitutionality.

So many Democrats are having a change of heart about Obama-care. Now that the innards are falling out with increasing speed and 2012 is just around the corner, suddenly the Affordable Care Act is in need of “medical” attention. The long-term care provision will collapse on itself because although money will start being collected for it in 2012, no benefits will be paid until 2017. The $70 billion collected during those five years will finance other parts of Obama-care, a Ponzi scheme of the first order per Democrat Sen. Kent Conrad. Congress just abolished the 1099 requirement, especially harmful to small business. Nearly 800 waivers have been granted for Obama-care to allow companies not to abide by the law’s provisions. Of these waivers, 40 percent went to unions, which represent only 7 percent of American workers. Waivers were needed because hundreds of provisions in the new law make insurance more expensive and less accessible to millions of workers who previously purchased low-cost, low-coverage health insurance. If so many waivers are needed now, think of what will be necessary in 2013 when the mandates insurers must cover will be nearly three times the present-day cost.

More than a year after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health care experts who gathered in Glendale Friday said the law continues to evolve. “This is a very fluid piece of legislation,” said Ruthann Laswick of Black, Gould & Associates. “HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) is constantly making clarifications. What you’re told one day could be completely different a few days later because their interpretation has changed.”

Chuck Bongiovanni: As we age, we naturally utilize more health-care services. Fortunately, “The Affordable Health Choice Act” has provisions in it that can increase patient choice, deter wasteful spending and drive down costs.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a new report Monday showing that more than 5 million Americans with traditional Medicare — or nearly one in six people with Medicare — took advantage of one or more of the recommended free preventive benefits.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a new report Monday showing that more than 5 million Americans with traditional Medicare — or nearly one in six people with Medicare — took advantage of one or more of the recommended free preventive benefits.

State lawmakers agreed Thursday to use about $18 million in federal stimulus funds to ensure that the parents of 15,000 youngsters will get state help next week with child care expenses. The 23-4 vote by the Senate and 50-6 House vote comes just days before the Department of Economic Security was set to cancel the subsidized child care for people who make between 110 and 165 percent of the federal poverty level.

WASHINGTON — Buying your own health insurance will never be the same.

John Munger: Regardless of federal actions, Arizona can be a national model for health care reform.

Regardless of federal actions, Arizona can be a national model for health care reform. By simply fixing what needs to be fixed, and not creating huge bureaucracies, bankrupting the state, or intervening between doctors and patients, we can solve the principal problems of rising costs of care and accessibility of care for all.

Saying they are working to prevent socialism, members of the state House voted 34-19 Thursday to ask voters to block the federal government from forcing Arizonans to enroll in any universal health care program.

Kim Meagher no longer has the means to feed the retirees that live behind her Gilbert home.

Kim Meagher no longer has the means to feed the retirees that live behind her Gilbert home.