USA TODAY - A year ago, the political hurricane known as the “Tea Party” erupted in made-for-YouTube confrontations at congressional town hall meetings on the pending health care overhaul.[Read more...]
AP - Medicare is in better shape because of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul and will stay afloat a dozen years longer than earlier projected, trustees forecast Thursday. But that depends on cuts in care that the system’s top analyst says are highly doubtful.[Read more...]
When Jeanne Chamberlain turns up at work Thursday, she’s going to have to grapple with America’s first federal tax on tanning services, a 10% levy designed to help pay for Congress’s health-care overhaul.Ms. Chamberlain runs a video-rental store. View Full Image Carl Kiilsgaard for The Wall Street Journal Lacie Ledet wipes down a bed [...]
AP - The fight over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul hasn’t ended, it’s simply shifted to a wider arena.[Read more...]
AP - Facing a public still wary of his massive health care overhaul, President Barack Obama urged Americans not to judge the nearly $1 trillion legislation he signed into law last week until the reforms take hold.[Read more...]
AP - President Barack Obama prepared Tuesday to sign the piece of his sweeping health care overhaul that makes the government the primary lender to students and strips banks of that power.[Read more...]
AP - Capping an epic struggle, congressional Democrats put the final touches Thursday to historic legislation enshrining health care as the right of every citizen. Republicans vowed to campaign for repeal in the fall election season, drawing a quick retort from President Barack Obama: “I welcome that fight.”[Read more...]
AP - In a final drive to thwart President Barack Obama’s health care remake, Republican senators plan to force Democrats to run a gantlet of politically dicey votes before they can finish a companion bill to the landmark law.[Read more...]
AP - A top adviser to President Barack Obama says people will embrace the health care overhaul once they “get familiar with what is is and what it isn’t.”[Read more...]
AP - Historic health care change in the balance, Democrats plowed fresh billions into insurance subsidies for consumers on Thursday and added a $250 rebate for seniors facing high prescription drugs, last-minute sweeteners to sweeping $940 billion legislation headed for a climactic weekend vote.[Read more...]
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