Health Care Reform

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March 22, 2010

How health care reform will impact you

OPINION - This is a great opportunity to look beyond the political posturing and demagoguery surrounding the bill, and examine…
March 21, 2010

House boosts college aid for students in need

WASHINGTON (AP) - Riding the coattails of a historic health care vote, the House on Sunday also passed a broad…
March 21, 2010

Health care reform narrowly passes House

WASHINGTON (AP) - Widely viewed as dead two months ago, the Senate-passed bill cleared the House on a 219-212 vote.…
March 21, 2010

Obama looks for another win with student loan plan

WASHINGTON (AP) - With health care dominating House action, President Obama was looking for another domestic policy victory Sunday -…
March 21, 2010

Obama and Dems: ‘We’re well past 216’ votes for health reform

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama and House Democratic leaders struck a last-minute deal Sunday with abortion foes to secure the…
March 20, 2010

Obama to Dems: Health reform ‘is in your hands’

VIDEO - Victory within reach, President Obama exhorted House Democrats on Saturday to stay true to their party's legacy and…
March 20, 2010

Health care reform protesters shout N-word at black lawmakers

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Andre Carson told a reporter that as he walked with Rep. John Lewis, a leader of…
March 20, 2010

Tea Party protests: N-word shouted at members of Congress

Preceding the president's speech to a gathering of House Democrats, thousands of protesters descended around the Capitol to protest the…
March 19, 2010

Dems down to the wire lobbying for reform votes

VIDEO - They've made some progress. A fourth Democrat, John Boccieri of Ohio, has switched his vote from "no" to…
March 19, 2010

11-year-old caught in the middle of health reform mudslinging

OPINION - Marcelas Owens' story can bring realism and relevance to a debate that has been about posturing, bickering and…
March 19, 2010

Obama: ‘We are going to fix health care in America’

FAIRFAX, Virginia (AP) - President Obama delivered a closing argument for the goal to which he has devoted much of…
March 19, 2010

State of the health care debate: Talk radio attacks an 11-year-old

Marcelas Owens, whose mother got sick, lost her job, lost her health insurance and died, said Thursday he's taking the…
March 19, 2010

Obama skips Asia trip to push health care bill

WASHINGTON (AP) - A trip to Asia must wait as President Obama's sweeping $940 billion U.S. health care reform plan…
March 18, 2010

Presidential disrespect goes prime-time in Obama’s Fox interview

OPINION - Republicans should realize that when they disrespect the presidency, they are disrespecting themselves...
March 18, 2010

House Dems on track for vote on $940 billion health bill

WASHINGTON (AP) - The bill delivers on President Obama's top domestic priority by providing coverage to more than 30 million…
March 18, 2010

Lawmakers fight to finish health reform

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pushing toward a history-making vote, Democrats struggled to eliminate lingering complications standing in the way of House…
March 17, 2010

Kucinich switches vote, will back health reform

WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich says he will support President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill when the…
March 17, 2010

Late-innings hardball in health care push

VIDEO - With time and tempers short, everyone's playing hardball in the drive to pass - or stop - Obama's…
March 16, 2010

House Dems defend ‘deem and pass’ health care plan

VIDEO - Democrats defended plans to push massive health care legislation through the House without a direct vote and Republicans…
March 16, 2010

Obama woos wavering Dems on health vote

VIDEO - Days away from a make-or-break vote on his fiercely contested health care overhaul, President Obama is turning up…