(NewsUSA) - Many of the key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- better known as ObamaCare -- are already coming into effect this year.

MR. CARNEY:  Thanks for joining us on this quick trip to New York City.  You heard, obviously, the President today in his press conference with the Prime Minister.  So I hope that you found that helpful and useful, but I am here also to take your questions.  Anybody have anything?

Senator McCain visited Oro Valley this past week. During his initial remarks on a host of topics, he twice mentioned foreign visitors over-extending their visas, and we are not able to track them. 

Even though Dave Safier writes “Say yes to expanding Medicaid”. On the surface this expansion of Medicaid looks like a no-brainer to many. 200,000+ Arizonans become eligible for coverage; 90 percent of the cost is covered by the feds; the remaining 10% paid through a hospital tax, which is supported by the hospitals who will supposedly see a greatly reduced demand for free services.

What if a business planned a move to Arizona that would pour more than a billion dollars into our economy every year while creating 21,000 jobs? Now imagine those jobs would be spread around the state, including areas hardest hit by the economic downturn. And there’s this added bonus: the money would be spent on pollution-free activities, which would actually increase the health and welfare of Arizonans.

The open enrollment period begins for the new health plans created by the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) on Oct. 1, yet most Americans couldn’t name one of the new health plans let alone describe all the services they cover.

Yesterday I was at the State Capitol shadowing Rep. Adam Kwasman. It was great. I sat in on the Commerce Committee meeting. We are trying to bring businesses to Arizona. Texas is not doing Medicaid-Obamacare. So do you think companies will leave the Obamacare State of California and come to Arizona if we also have Medicaid Obamacare (Obrewercare)? Absolutely not. Why would they come to the same situation they want to leave (over taxed) in California. Texas, here they come, or those other States that don’t pass Medicaid Obamacare. Good luck Arizona because they won’t come here. Thanks Gov. Jan Brewer. She will be leaving as governor so she doesn’t care what happens to our State.

Health insurance is confusing – regardless of whether your employer provides your insurance, you qualify for Medicare or Medicaid, or if you are footing the bill yourself for private insurance.

Citing too many questions, costs with the State Health Exchange, Gov. Jan Brewer notified the Obama Administration on Wednesday that the State of Arizona will not pursue the creation of a state-based Health Exchange.

I would like to clarify some aspects of “Obamacare”. The Affordable Care Act so far has given citizens many benefits. Young adults can remain on their parent’s policy. A benefit my own daughters could not have even when they wanted to buy private insurance in that critical time between graduating from college and finding a job. The cost was prohibitive for them. 

Much attention this political season has been paid to the issues of taxes and spending – and rightfully so. It’s no secret that we face serious challenges with regard to the deficit, our unwieldy tax code, and the looming implementation of ObamaCare. Yet, many of our government’s most far-reaching and intrusive actions have actually originated behind the scenes and out of the public eye: that is, in its issuance of a flood of federal regulations.

My name is Adam Kwasman, and I am running for State Representative in LD-11 to put Arizona on the long-term path to prosperity. I was born and raised right here, in town, and I have the knowledge and the experience to bring economic growth, safe streets and great schools to our region. I hold a masters degree in economics, and I work as an economic consultant. The best way to create good paying jobs for Arizona’s families is to foster a business-friendly environment that attracts world-class industries and encourages local companies to increase their investment in our beautiful state. We can only accomplish this if we vote for candidates who believe in our community and our personal freedoms, not bigger and bigger government.  We must have a competitive and jobs-friendly tax and regulatory structure, and we must have State Representatives who will stand up for Arizona against an intrusive federal government. Washington, DC has exceeded its authority under the constitution and exerts undue control over our daily lives. My first act in the State House will be to shield us against ObamaCare’s disastrous dictates on Arizona. 

I would like to respond to an ad that has been running for a number of weeks. Ann Kirkpatrick has been running the same three sentence add that I as a voter in this district would like to respond to and question. It begins by boldly saying that “it’s time to put aside partisan politics.” Really? Consider that she was first elected in 2008 to a Nancy Pelolsi led US House. There was no bipartisanship attempted when Kirkpatrick voted for the Affordable Care Act(Obamacare). It seems to be hypocritical to want to put aside partisan politics when you would then be in the minority. 

Our second president, John Adams, stated that “[f]acts are stubborn things.” But during a campaign season, the facts are frequently ignored by candidates engaging in revisionist history – an old trick for those with empty records. For example, consider some recent claims made by President Obama regarding our nation’s economic mess.

An UnAmerican thing to say

Republican Adam Kwasman, a Tucson native, is looking to take his knowledge in economics, finance, and legislative process into the Arizona House of Representatives, District 11, come the Nov. 6 General Election.

Republican Jonathon Paton, Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick, and Libertarian Kim Allen, each running for U.S. Congress, District 1, met on Monday night at the Legacy Traditional School in Marana to debate federal, state, and local issues.

Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities famously begins: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Yet, for two Arizona business owners who recently visited my office, it can only be described as the worst of times. Not only are these job creators up against the headwinds of a weak economy, but costly mandates and tax hikes enacted by the president and his allies in Congress are poised to crush their businesses and force many of their employees into the unemployment queue.

When it comes to Democrats, the current state of the nation and his goals to get reelected to the Arizona Senate for a third term, Sen. Al Melvin has no problem speaking his mind.

While running for president in 2008, then-Senator Obama promised that families making less than $250,000 a year would not see a tax increase as a result of his health-care plan. Many warned that such a promise was simply untenable – that there was no way to do what he proposed without increasing taxes on middle-income Americans. Now, the numbers are in, and they don’t look pretty for already over-taxed families.

Ican’t even believe that the lady from Saddlebrooke wrote or even thought such nonsense as she wrote in this week’s Explorer.  Even with irrefutable proof of a falsified birth certificate and legitimate questions about where all Obama’s scholarships came from, she still manages to accuse the Republicans of ignoring facts. He has broken every promise he ever made in every arena.  He has broken every program he’s been involved in--for example, lost billions of our money in Solyndra; lost trillions in insisting on Obamacare; lost more billions on the stimulus plan; more billions on practically everything else he promised when he was running for president.  Those are facts.