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Health Care 101: A consumer primer on Obama’s bill
It took lawmakers a year to shape President Barack Obama’s health care bill. If it finally passes Congress, it’ll take the better part of a decade to write the user manual for consumers and doctors, employers and insurance companies. Some health insurance consumer protections would go into place immediately, significant but limited in scope.
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House Panel Pushes Forward With Health Care Maneuver
The House Budget Committee Monday initiated the process that will allow the Senate to consider health care reform under special rules which ban Senate filibusters and require a simple majority to approve the measure.
‘They Just Want This Over’
Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s
Dems Abandon Abortion Deal, Ready Health Vote
House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.
Pelosi: ‘The choice has to be made’
Congressional Democrats embarked on the final push for an historic health care bill on Thursday with no guarantee that they have the votes to pass it.And they made their task even more difficult by moving toward writing off anti-abortion
Student Loan Reform: What’s It Doing in the Health Care Debate?
The White House and Democratic leaders are considering wrapping a student loan reform bill into the reconciliation “fix it” bill the Senate plans to pass for health care reform. At least nine senators, however, now oppose the plan, complicating Democrats’ plans to finish health care
House Dems Scramble to Get Enough Votes for Health Care
The fate of the Democrats’ comprehensive health care overhaul could rest in the hands of a few undecided congressmen, new reports reveal, with the finally tally shifting ever so slightly — but very significantly — every day.Congressional leaders are working furiously behind the scenes
Stupak ‘optimistic’ on abortion language
A Democrat opposed to abortion rights, who has led the charge against the Senate healthcare bill, softened his tone Monday, suggesting the impasse over abortion funding can be resolved. Rep. Bart Stupak (Mich.), who has repeatedly made threats to whip votes against healthcare legislation if it even indirectly
Obama Targets Insurance Companies in Last-Ditch Pitch for Health Care Bill
President Obama ratcheted up his attacks against insurance companies Monday in a last-ditch attempt to get a reluctant America and skittish Democrats behind his top priority, health overhaul legislation. Obama contended that insurers have calculated that they will make more money by denying coverage
Illinois Democrat Lipinski Will Switch from Yes to No if Health Bill Lacks Stupak Amendment
Add Congressman Dan Lipinski of Illinois to the coalition of pro-life Democrats standing firmly with Bart Stupak in the fight over taxpayer-funding of abortion in the health care bill. Asked if the congressman is “open to voting for a health care bill that lacks the Stupak amendment,” Lipinski’s
