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After many months of getting a pass, it seems that the other candidates are willing to finally start hitting Governor Mitt Romney on his major weakness: The Massachusetts Health Care Insurance Reform Law. The bill, known by most as Romneycare, is (as we all have been saying for many moons) the basis for the much maligned Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise affectionately known as Obamacare. I’ve been in endless debates and discussions with Romney supporters and surrogates for some time now as they paint a beautiful picture of the ultimate State’s Rights battle. They claim that Romneycare vs...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The county's chief medical officer Friday withdrew his recommendation to eliminate pediatric, obstetric and neonatology wards at the troubled Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center. The hospital has been plagued by severe problems, including patient deaths blamed on poor nursing, lawsuits brought by patients who had medical objects left inside them, and hospital mismanagement that has threatened funding and accreditation. At the August hearing, Dr. Thomas L. Garthwaite, director of the county's Department of Health Services, said his motivation for the cuts was to create a hospital that does "fewer things extremely well." He said only...