The sham vote runs from April 11 to 18. We are already being threatened because we are here to monitor the elections.

Thanks President Obama for helping Guam provide better health care to its citizens.
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Health Care Reconciliation Bill Passed; Bill Improves Provisions For Territories

Last Updated on Friday, 26 March 2010 19:59
Written by News Release

Guam – Congress today passed H.R. 4872, the “Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act.”

H.R. 4872 passed the Senate by a vote of 56 yeas to 43 noes and in the House by a vote of 220 yeas to 207 noes. President Obama is expected to sign this measure into law.

H.R. 4872 makes a number of corrections to H.R. 3590, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” passed by the House and signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday, March 23.

Two provisions of H.R. 4872 directly address the health care needs of Guam and the other territories.

The territories will now be able to opt into the new health insurance exchanges in 2014 or enhance their Medicaid programs.

Congress has specifically appropriated $1 billion to assist residents of the territories in purchasing health insurance on these exchanges.

If any territory elects to not participate in a health insurance exchange then those funds will be used for Medicaid.

H.R. 4872 also increases federal assistance for Medicaid on Guam. Guam currently receives approximately $13.7 million a year from the federal government.

This will nearly double to $24 million for fiscal year 2011. For fiscal year 2012, aid will nearly double again to $42 million.

Medicaid assistance will continue to rise for the rest of the decade, reaching approximately $58 million by 2019. Adjusting for inflation, this represents a tripling of federal Medicaid assistance to Guam.

Additionally, H.R. 4872 contains provisions that reform student loans and will contribute to lower costs to attend a community college or university.

These provisions represent a major investment for students to pursue higher education by increasing funding for Pell Grant Scholarships to $36 billion in the next ten years and by providing $750 million to the College Access and Challenge Grant Program which will improve access to college and boost graduation rates.

H.R. 4872 also makes it easier for borrowers to repay their federal student loans by lowering the cap on monthly payments from 15 % to 10% of discretionary income.

The bill also includes $2.55 billion specifically for minority serving institutions and $2 billion in competitive grants for community colleges for career training programs.

Students from Guam are eligible to participate in all of these programs.

“Today Congress fulfilled its promise to reform health care,” Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo said today. “The higher education provisions in this bill will increase assistance for college students to make college more affordable in these tough times.

This bill makes important changes in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that President Obama recently signed into law.

Theses changes specifically address the needs of the territories through increased federal funding of our Medicaid program and give us the option of establishing an exchange program.”
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May be it’s because he is an islander. But all I know is this President stands behind his promises.

Peter

The President is about to give the American people the second largest profit in US history from the government sale of a stock, 8 billion dollars.

This with the return of all the money lent to Citi Bank means Obama is a politician who knows how to make money for the people,

I can’t wait to hear the republican spin. Those hypocrites will knock anything to stay in office.

Claire

This is from a book called  Disorder in the American Courts, and are supposedly things people  actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters. 

ATTORNEY: Do  you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The  autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.

ATTORNEY: And, Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I  finished.
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