This week, the First Lady traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana to kick off the next phase her Let’s Move! initiative to raise a healthier generation of kids. In the morning, Mrs. Obama spoke to students and teachers at Brock Elementary, then she joined kids and NFL players for football drills at Woldenberg Park. Click here […]
Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, walk step-by-step with the President as he celebrates Labor Day in Milwaukee, welcomes the Secretary-General of NATO, outlines plans to grow the economy in Cleveland and much more. Click here to see the video. For more information […]
When President Obama came into office our nation was losing 750,000 jobs a month, and the President took difficult steps to help save our economy and stave off a second Great Depression. While some of those steps weren’t popular, they were the right thing to do for our recovery: our country has now added private […]
En español. Join Department of Health & Human Services officials for a live webchat from the White House this Thursday at 2:30 PM ET (11:30 AM PT) to introduce CuidadoDeSalud.Gov, the first website in Spanish of its kind to help consumers take control of their health care, and to take questions from readers of some of […]
The CMS Office of the Actuary (OACT) released an update today regarding their annual National Health Expenditures report. The Office of the Actuary does a report on National Health expenditures annually every March. This year, when they put out their report, they indicated that Congress was poised to enact the health reform law and that […]
We all understand the impact the foreclosure crisis has had on homeowners. But the crisis has hurt communities, too. Foreclosed and vacant homes have a debilitating effect on neighborhoods and often lead to blight, neighborhood decay and reduced property values. That’s why the Administration is announcing today another $1 billion to help communities struggling with […]
This afternoon the President was in Cleveland, Ohio, the city where House Republican Leader Boehner recently put forth his party’s priorities for the economy. In his remarks, the President laid out a stark contrast between policies that help the economy work for the middle class, and the policies that allowed special interests to run amok — […]
En español. Today, an op-ed from President Obama is running in major Spanish-language newspapers across the country. The op-ed discusses the benefits of the Affordable Care Act for Latinos and announces the release of a new Spanish-language version of HealthCare.gov – www.CuidadoDeSalud.gov. The op-ed is running in ImpreMedia’s print publications (including La Opinión in Los Angeles and El Diario La Prensa in […]
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that some health insurance companies are blaming the Affordable Care Act for premium increases that were planned long before the law was passed. We knew this would happen, which is why the President called on insurance companies not to use the Affordable Care Act as an excuse to implement unreasonable […]
It is disturbing but unfortunately not surprising that an entire political party would rally together to hold tax relief for middle class families hostage as leverage to push through tax cuts for the very richest Americans — people who don’t need them and haven’t even asked for them. But that is apparently exactly what Republican Minority Leader John […]
