Senate moderates wield influence to seek changes to health-care reform

Senator, Clout Rising, Cements Role at Heart of Debate

By: dustgeer

   No sooner had Senator Blanche Lincoln promised to deliver one crucial vote in support of a health care overhaul than she threatened to withhold the next one.Her clear warning that she would oppose the Democratic plan in its current form is certain to keep her squarely at the center of the increasingly contentious health care fight and ...

12 days ago

Reid Backs Health Public Option With State Opt-Out

By: chochii87

Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said he will ask the U.S. Senate to vote for a government-run health-insurance program that would allow states to opt out. Reid said the so-called public option with the opt-out provision is the “fairest way to go†...

about 1 month ago

US Senate votes to start Obama health drive debate

By: intellectual

The US Senate, torn along party lines, voted to formally launch debate on historic legislation to enact President Barack Obama's signature drive to remake US health care, handing him a win for now. The 100-seat chamber's two independents joined all 58 Democrats -- including two waverers who declared their intentions just hours earlier -- to ...

12 days ago

Lieberman to filibuster health care reform with GOP

By: kimberlydvorak

In an announcement after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid-D proposed a public option plan, Lieberman said he would join the GOP in standing against the embattled Democratic Party health care reform efforts. Lieberman, an Independent, caucuses with the Democrats while touting his fiscal responsibility to the American people. In a report from ...

about 1 month ago