It will limit people's choices to, in many cases, to a government-run program like Medicaid which is essentially a health care gulag, because people will not have any choices but to take that poorly performing government plan. Full Article at Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — Casting health care overhaul as a legacy for the American people and failure as politically unthinkable, President Barack Obama on Sunday rallied Senate Democrats to deliver on their party's half-century quest to expand the social safety... Full Article at Deseret News
This was a +12 Obama district. even-steven is quite a move towards the GOP Today’s Sunday session was the most pointless endeavor. There was two totally pointless amendments that got voted down: 1. Blanche Lincoln’s executive pay for HMO executives. Full Article at The Hedgehog Report
ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Demonstrations in Athens, Greece, Sunday marking the 2008 shooting death of a teenage by police turned violent, authorities said. Full Article at United Press International
While the smoke rises from the Capitol building where the health care debate proceeds, Obama is losing his political base on the left. Full Article at National Ledger
This is the paradox of the moment: President Obama's speech on Afghanistan and his subsequent jobs summit underscored why it's essential to get a health care bill done quickly. The calendar of politics has an urgency that the dilatory pace of the U.S. Full Article at Minneapolis Star Tribune
WASHINGTON - Casting health care overhaul as a legacy for the American people and failure as politically unthinkable, President Barack Obama on Sunday rallied Senate Democrats to deliver on their party's half-century quest to expand the social safety... Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
It's an effective ad against something of a straw man. I really haven't heard anyone say that opposition to, say, the public option is rooted in racism. Maybe someone has, but it's not exactly a meme. Full Article at Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish
President Barack Obama walks out of the Senate Democratic caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. Full Article at San Diego Union-Tribune
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- As the debate on health care reform continues, New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg said his main concern is to protect Medicare. President Barack Obama visited a rare weekend session of the Senate on Sunday, appealing directly to senators' Full Article at WMUR New Hampshire
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ripped President Barack Obama on Sunday, accusing his once-rival of breaking his word to the American people. Photo: AP It was like old times: John McCain versus Barack Obama. Full Article at The Politico
Here are letters to the editor from Daily News editions of Dec. 7, 2009: “Your World” photo/essay contributor Kathleen McCarthy DeStefano writes that eagles are a species that mates for life. It is amusing to compare their habits to those of people. Full Article at Naples Daily News
Senate Democrats emerged from a meeting with President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Sunday afternoon still mired in intraparty disagreements over health care overhaul legislation but committed to resolving their differences before... Full Article at CQ Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Senate Democrats to work out their differences on healthcare reform and pass what will be the most significant social legislation in decades. Full Article at ABC News
President Barack Obama went to Capitol Hill on Sunday to press Democratic senators to pass a health care reform bill, but moments after his 45-minute meeting with senators, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, "We're not there yet." Full Article at Politics Daily
President Obama leaves after meeting with Senate Democrats to rally support for the health care bill. Full Article at CNN
while Catholic voters are split on President Obama’s ideas for healthcare reform, they do want to see costs lowered and overwhelmingly support a government plan that would make health insurance available to the uninsured.
Obama is trying hard for favourable reforms in the sector but it doesn't look like it is going to get through. The healthcare system in the US is advanced and expensive as well. What about people who do not have insurance cover?
You have to think to vote against health insurance reform in a Congressional District won by President Obama just a year ago could be a political death knell at a time when Americans are clamoring for solutions to vexing issues like health care
Obama and Reid wanted debate so now they'll get debate on their cloaked provisions that would cover abortion on demand in proposed new government-run and government-subsidized insurance plans
President Obama has pledged that health insurance reform will not add to our federal budget deficit over the next decade. Do you think that President Obama will be able to keep his promise or do you think that any health care plan that Congress passes and President Obama signs will add to the federal bu...
The Obama administration is trying to be, I don’t know how to put it, half-pregnant with the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical companies ... They’re to some degree the source of our problem.
Obama is going to get me a car, a house, and health insurance while I do nothing or the bare minimum
The article raises serious allegations about whether insurance companies are raising rates in anticipation of health reform being enacted by President Obama and Congress
Obama and his crew are just enabling a last looting before the deluge. This includes health insurance looting. Probably the most evil acts I have seen in my 60 years.
What Obama and Baucus don’t say is that if you don’t like the health insurance you have, you still have to keep it
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was taking a lot of the credit for getting more than 60 Democratic votes on Nov. 7 for a last-minute amendment to President Obama's health care bill that says no federally subsidized insurance plan can cover abortion
Two of President Obama's senior health care advisers said Wednesday that a proposed tax on high-cost insurance plans and a new commission to control Medicare spending were among 'four pillars' essential to major health care legislation. Their remarks firmly aligned the White House with the Senate on two...
Leaders of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus have written to Obama calling the provisions an unprecedented restriction of women's access to health insurance coverage for abortion services
Freshman Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia Democrat, said Tuesday that President Obama has misplayed his attempt to reform U.S. heath care by focusing on insurance coverage instead of explaining that the current system is headed toward a financial meltdown.
Instead of handing out favors to big insurance companies, Republicans should work with President Obama and Democrats in Congress to pass the health insurance reform our country needs.
Voting is set for Saturday on the 10-year, $1.2 trillion legislation that embraces Obama's goals of extending health coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and putting tough new restrictions on insurance companies.
is the Senate's answer to a bill that narrowly passed the House Nov. 7. The two bills have differences on taxes, abortion coverage and a public-insurance plan and would require considerable work to reconcile if Congress hopes to pass some form of health care overhaul -- the centerpiece of President Bara...
One week before Barack Obama reinjects himself into the Virginia governor’s race, Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate, said that he would ‘certainly’ consider taking his state out of a government insurance option if given the chance.
The Senate Finance Committee-passed health care bill includes an 'individual mandate' that Americans must buy an insurance policy or pay a fine, an approach that tracks President Barack Obama's health care proposals. But if enacted into law, this mandate would be glaringly unconstitutional.
The key vulnerability in Obama's health care plan is the financial burden it will impose on young people and their families ... It threatens them with jail if they do not either get high cost health insurance (averaging $15,000 per family in premiums) or pay a fine of 2.5% of their income to the governm...
Don't look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul ... A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. They're locked in a battle with liberals, with the fate of President ...
The Obama administration and the Democratic majority in Congress have taken our economy from bad to worse, with their failed economic agenda and big government plans ... And as if all this were not enough, Democrats in Washington continue to push for government-run [health] insurance.
The Affordable Health Care for America Act reflects the hard work and input of many members of Congress and the American people and lives up to the principles that President Obama has laid out. We are closer than ever to guaranteeing every American access to quality, affordable health insurance and givi...
In fact, the 2008 Democratic Party Platform referred to the need for a 'public plan,' and candidate Barack Obama referred more than once to the idea of providing people who can't get private insurance with government-backed insurance similar to that which members of Congress get.
Sen. LeMieux's unwillingness to even discuss the issue of health insurance in our country--which has been on the minds of Floridians for many years--shows that neither he nor Gov. Charlie Crist are interested in fixing our broken health insurance system and are only interested in seeing Democrats and Pr...
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