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Reichert takes on AARP over health care overhaul
Lexington :: KY :: USA | 10 days ago
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It's a bit like tangling with the National Rifle Association. Washington state, it's a potent lobbying force in Washington, D.C., highly visible nationwide and its members vote more often than just about anyone else...Stuart Rothenberg, an independent...
Tags: AARP, Dave Reichert, David Sloane, health care, Lake Washington, House, Stuart Rothenberg, David Wasserman, Rothenberg Report, care overhaul, Lexington
Bishops shape U.S. health care bill
Washington :: DC :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility The call came in from Rome, just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top lieutenants in her Democratic Party were scrambling to round up scarce votes to pass their sweeping health overhaul legislation...McCarrick, the former Roman Catholic archbishop of...
Tags: Nancy Pelosi, House, speaker nancy, house speaker, care overhaul, Washington, Pro-life movement, Pro-choice, Abortion in the United States, Catholic Church and politics in the United States, Human rights, Abortion, Politics, Social Issues, Religion Belief, Barack Obama, Hyde Amendment, Democratic Party, Health Medical Pharma, Abortion in Canada, Diana DeGette, Doris Matsui
Senate, administration begin healthcare endgame as Dem leaders express unity
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The group will have to meld a centrist, deficit-reducing healthcare bill that leaves liberals cold with a left-leaning measure that causes anxiety among more conservative Democrats. The obstacles were clearly visible on the day of the first official...
Tags: Senate Finance Committee, health care, health insurers, White House, insurers option, majority leaders, antitrust exemption, democrat fired, senator democrat, care overhaul
Obama praises Finance Committee work
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Obama praised the lawmakers for their efforts, saying the bill "enjoys the support of people from both parties." "It's a product of vigorous debate and difficult negotiations," he said. Snowe was the only Republican to vote it out of committee. The president...
Tags: health care, U.S. Senate, Senate Finance Committee, Senate Finance Vote, Olympia Snowe, Barack Obama, care overhaul, senator finance, public option, Ms Snowe
Seniors lobby challenges health insurance report
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Executive Vice President John Rother told reporters Monday. "If anyone believes it, that's a problem." The study commissioned by America's Health Insurance Plans put the White House, congressional Democrats and their allies on the defensive on the eve...
Tags: health care, Senate Finance Committee, health insurers, Senate Democrats, insurers industry, Barack Obama, White House, president obama, insurers plans, care overhaul
Health care: The Great Debate
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility In an ideal world, Mayo Chief Executive Denis Cortese would leave it to the professionals to design a high-value, low-cost health care system. Congress, he told a National Press Club forum last week, would "step back, take a deep breath and ... close...
Tags: health care, care overhaul, television ad
NBC 2 Houston (KPRC): Timeline
Arizona :: AZ :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Chronology of President Barack Obama's efforts this year to overhaul health care: --Feb. 24: In a speech to Congress, Obama says the "crushing cost" of health care is driving families and small businesses into bankruptcy and hobbling U.S. companies in...
Tags: health care, care overhaul, Barack Obama, Arizona
Trumka warns lawmakers on health care overhaul
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The man slated to become the AFL-CIO's next president says lawmakers will pay a political price if they abandon a government-run option in any health care overhaul. Richard Trumka said Monday the labor movement needs to be one that "punishes its enemies"...
Tags: Barack Obama, Mr. Obama, AFL-CIO, health care, care overhaul, cio convention, Pittsburgh, Richard Trumka, health insurers, Miami City Hall
Health care overhaul plans provoking specific concerns among older Americans
Springfield :: MO :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Turns out you can fear a government takeover of health care even if the government already took over your health care. How else to explain the reservations of seniors like 85-year-old Dee Jollie, one of the millions of people covered by Medicare, the...
Tags: obama, health care, Medicare, care overhaul
Axelrod's ties targeted in health fight
White House :: TN :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Critics of President Obama’s health-care overhaul are zeroing in on his senior adviser David Axelrod , whose former partners at a Chicago-based firm are the beneficiaries of huge ad buys—now at $24 million and counting—by White House allies in the reform...
Tags: Barack Obama, consulting firms, care overhaul, David Axelrod
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