Sen. Joseph Lieberman affirmed on Tuesday what progressive health care reform advocates have long feared: At this juncture, he is likely to oppose a public option for health insurance coverage. The Connecticut independent made his latest criticisms of a public option ...Read More
Health reformers emerged from the darkness of the hallowed congressional committee rooms to pull off a highly celebrated though razor-thin 220-to-215 victory in the House of Representatives last month, bringing transformative change halfway home. But the hastily called Saturday vote ...Read More
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid eked out 60 votes on a procedural motion to start the health care debate Saturday night – so there’s no guarantee he can pass a bill on the merits.
And if he struggles, the reasons will ...Read More
When a government advisory panel put out new recommendations last week that said women under age 50 need not be screened for breast cancer, the calls began flowing to Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski's office. Within days, the Maryland senator had ...Read More
WASHINGTON - -- Amid all the uncertainties about how health care legislation would affect each American, one thing is clear: The more-affluent would pay higher taxes. Embracing the progressive -- and sometimes politically risky -- principle that more of the cost ...Read More
Each bill requires people to buy insurance or pay a penalty -- $750 by 2016 in the Senate bill and 2.5 percent of income in the House bill. Each bill sets up insurance marketplaces, called exchanges, in which people without access ...Read More
It's not as rare as you think for President Barack Obama and Gov. Sarah Palin to be in complete agreement on an issue of national importance. In August, she wrote on her Facebook page that "we cannot have health care reform ...Read More
Nov 21 (Reuters) - The debate over U.S. healthcare reformis full of terms familiar to lawmakers and lobbyists but oftenobscure to the public. Here is a glossary of words and phrases being bandied aboutas Congress considers President Barack Obama's top domesticpriority: ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- Sweeping health care legislation has cleared its first hurdle in the full Senate on a party-line vote.
The 60-39 vote clears the way for a historic debate after Thanksgiving on the legislation. The measure is designed to extend coverage ...Read More
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) appears to have secured the 60 votes needed to move an $848 billion health-care reform bill to the Senate floor for debate. After days of indecision, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) -- the final Democratic ...Read More
WASHINGTON - Democratic senators called an overhaul of the U.S. health care system long overdue as historic legislation advanced toward a crucial first vote Saturday night, an early test of party unity on President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative Democratic leaders ...Read More
Washington (CNN) -- Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana said Saturday she has decided to support a floor debate on the Senate's health care reform bill.
But she added a caveat on the floor of the Senate: "My vote today to ...Read More
Lawmakers pushing for health care reform are facing charges that a government-funded panel's recommendations to limit breast cancer screenings could be a sign of things to come if proposed health care legislation is passed. The new mammography guidelines, released by the ...Read More
Is it un-American to have open competition? It is a sad commentary on the integrity of our pharmaceutical giants, to learn that the cost of prescription drugs has gone up 9 percent during the debate for health-care reform ["Drug prices rise ...Read More
Confusing new recommendations on mammograms and pap smears are playing into public fears about the increased role the federal government would play in health care if President Barack Obama’s health care reform efforts are successful.
Even some supporters of health care ...Read More
Is American democracy in paralysis? That question emerged at a conference of big thinkers and experts in various fields organized last week by Foreign Policy magazine, our sister publication. To an extent, the question reflects an America-in-decline-ism that becomes fashionable from ...Read More
WASHINGTON - Senator John F. Kerry's office said yesterday that Kerry helped make sure that under the health care bill the Senate will begin debating today, Massachusetts could continue operating the Health Insurance Connector that is considered a linchpin of ...Read More
(NECN: Brian Burnell, Hartford, Conn.) - The health care showdown moves to the U.S. Senate. A test vote is set for Saturday. Majority Leader Harry Reid needs 60 votes. Republicans today tried to peel off some moderate Democrats.
The vote of ...Read More
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Leaders of the Senate’s defense andhomeland security committees said they plan to investigate why aterrorism task force led by the FBI didn’t tell the Pentagonabout e-mail exchanges between Fort Hood shooting suspect NidalMalik Hasan and extremist ...Read More
So exactly why are health insurance premiums increasing so fast for so many small employers? Some Democratic members of Congress want to know. In a strongly worded letter to the trade association representing the nation’s health insurers, 31 Senators and 88 ...Read More
