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Senate Democrats on Sunday sparred with each other over how to fix the nation's troubled health care system, the moderates threatening to scuttle legislation if their demands weren't met and more liberal members warning their party leaders not to bend. Complete Story...
Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.
Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
A comparison of the health care bills before Congress:
Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.
The Senate's top Democrat is poised to outline a new health care bill designed to meet President Barack Obama's goal of expanding coverage without adding to the deficit.
Southern Maryland is getting nearly $5 million in federal stimulus money for health-care projects.
Overall spending on health care would rise as a result of legislation approved a week ago by the House, and billions of dollars in projected savings contained in the measure will be difficult to maintain, according to a report by a top official at the agency that oversees Medicare.
First lady Michelle Obama sought to assure older women on Friday that efforts to overhaul health care won't undercut the benefits they receive through Medicare, saying her husband considers the government-run program a "sacred part of America's social safety net."
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that 111 projects in 35 states, including two in Iowa, will receive funds to expand access to health care services in rural areas.
Lillian Landry always said she wasn't afraid to die. So when death came last week, the 99-year-old was lying peacefully in a hospice with no needles or tubes. Her final days saw her closest friend at her side and included occasional shots of her favorite whiskey, Canadian Mist.
Health care, a giant in the U.S. economy, may be a gentle giant when it comes to greenhouse gases.
Rising unemployment, swine flu and the threat of health care reform all ganged up on managed care companies in the third quarter and could hurt their performance heading into 2010. But most of the large publicly traded health insurers reported better-than-expected profit growth for the latest period, and analysts still see strong core businesses beneath the challenges facing the industry.
Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering a plan for higher payroll taxes on the upper-income earners to help finance health care legislation he intends to introduce in the Senate in the next several days, numerous Democratic officials said Wednesday.
President Barack Obama trumpeted two major endorsements for his health overhaul push Thursday as House Democratic leaders pushed toward a vote Saturday on the far-reaching legislation remaking the U.S. health care system.
The House has used a near party line vote to reject a Republican health overhaul bill.
A House Democrat is accusing President Barack Obama of dehumanizing illegal immigrants with his hard-line stance against allowing them to benefit from pending health overhaul legislation.
Dr. James Wang says he tries to tell his patients when extra medical procedures aren't necessary. If they insist, though, he will do it — not so much to protect their health as his own practice.
In a blow to the White House, the Senate's top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for passing health care legislation, leaving the measure's fate to the uncertainties of the 2010 election season.
The $100 Million Health Care Vote? - The NoteIs this how you want your health care determined?
Economists' Letter to Obama on Health Care ReformThis afternoon a group of 23 prominent economists — including two Nobel laureates as well as previous members of both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations — sent a letter to President Obama about the priorities for health care reform.
Soldier Single Mom Refuses Deployment to Care for Baby Arrested, Told to Put Child in Foster CareAn Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas. Spc.
Testing Next Year's Lies TodayWithin hours after the House of Representatives approved health care reform by a narrow margin, Republicans predicted retribution at the polls next fall. They promised to make every Democrat regret that historic vote as the first step toward the reversal of power in Washington.
House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Washington, D.C. - In a stunning and totally unexpected move, the Obama administration has suddenly pulled the rug from under the anti-smoking movement and is set to reverse laws prohibiting the use of tobacco in public places.
Medical Industry Grumbles, but It Stands to Gain For any industry, there has to be at least some good news any time Congress votes to expand the market by tens of millions of customers.But the business world found plenty to complain about Sunday, as it assessed the House bill that would make sweeping changes in the health care …
Cantor Promises Tea Partiers: 'Not One' GOP Vote For Health CareI guess Cantor's promise was CANNED. Take your dirty face to the CAN and throw some tea on it and it and try to wash off the egg.
Simple: Obama declares flu 'national emergency' + passage of health 'reform' = marital law, forced vaccinations, and the 'Mark of the Beast' How do I know this? I read the bill.
US House backs healthcare reforms (Video)The US House of Representatives has backed a healthcare bill in a step towards reforms promised by President Obama, despite strong opposition.
House Passes Historic Health Care BIllAP - In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.
KELOLAND.COM - Herseth Sandlin To Oppose House Health Care BillSouth Dakota has a total population of about 650,000 people. As such we only have 1 congressperson, unlike populous states as New York and California. Ms.
Joe Wilson Proposes Forcing Congress Onto Government Health Insurance Plan - FOXNews.comRep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., is proposing the requirement to that all Congressmen be forced to use the Government Health Insurance Plan.
Why does the party of NO fear affordable health care for all? REAL reform including a PUBLIC OPTION? I guess that fact that they are a wholly owned subsidiary of the ins.
Ok, honest question here.. I've seen dollar figures around 1 Trillion for health care reform, WHY does it cost so much! Here's what I don't understand: From the figures I've seen there are about 45.7 million Americans without insurance.
Faith Healing Being Snuck Into Health Care Bill -- latimes.comReporting from Washington - Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses.
Our pets ought to be peeved with our careIt's been a tough week for day cares. In Taunton a day-care operator passed out, sauced, during business hours. Her own mother turned her in.
Limbaugh doesn't let "damn convoluted language" stop him from misinforming on health bill"Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that a section of the version of the health care reform bill unveiled by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will cause small businesses to "lose their tax breaks for health coverage" and asserted that "it's hard to tell from the damn convoluted langu …
Mixed messages cause confusion - Healthzone.caOntario has had many months to plan for this pandemic and the government has dropped the ball, said NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.
Travers: Ottawa continues to add staff, so why the long vaccine lines? - Healthzone.caA crisis mismanaged is an opportunity missed. Politicians could have seized the moment to remind Canadians that there are some things only government can do.
I started supporting Obama's Presidential run as soon as he announced his candidacy, and for a number of reasons. I truly believed in his vision for our future, and I still do. But no President can ever be perfect, and President Obama has of course made a few mistakes thus far.
Too dangerous after 216 years.Time called on clock winding By JOHN COLES Published: 17 Sep 200
Lack of health care led to the DEATH of 17,000 American Children- StudyThe research, to be published Friday in the Journal of Public Health, was compiled from more than 23 million hospital records from 37 states between 1988 and 2005.
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