Topic: Health Care Reform

Romney says overturning U.S. health law a priority

BOSTON (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney said on Wednesday that reversing the U.S. healthcare reforms passed in 2010, a signature part of President Barack Obama's agenda, would be a top priority if he were elected president in 2012."If I am elected president, ...

Trump says public scorn greater than he expected

NASHUA, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Real estate magnate Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday it's not much fun flirting with the idea of running for president in the face of relentless attacks and ridicule."Nobody said it was going to be easy, but I ...

Romney to take on healthcare law in speech

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney is set to outline a plan on Thursday to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul law in a move that seems aimed at blunting criticism by conservatives of a healthcare plan Romney developed for Massachusetts.Romney, expected ...

Obama administration fights to save healthcare law

RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Lawyers for President Barack Obama go to court on Tuesday to try to save the cornerstone of his healthcare overhaul, arguing that the requirement for Americans to buy insurance is constitutional.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of ...
Actor Dwight Schultz says President Barack Obama's health care act will force him to alter his sexActor Dwight Schultz says President Barack Obama's health care act will force him to alter his sex. Schultz is best know for playing Reginald Barclay on ...

Obama to Republicans: 'You think we're stupid?'

CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he challenged Republicans to try to repeal his landmark healthcare reform in private budget talks last week, taunting his opponents with a question: "You think we're stupid?"In one of three political fund-raisers for his re-election ...

Democrats celebrate: Happy birthday, Romneycare!

BOSTON (Reuters) - Democrats in at least three states are marking the fifth anniversary on Tuesday of the health care reforms Republican Mitt Romney helped pass when he was governor of Massachusetts.The events were designed to remind voters of Romney's role in ...

Romney counts on massive warchest and circle of giving

BOSTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney, a presidential also-ran in 2008, is powering up a fund-raising machine he hopes will obliterate competition for the 2012 Republican nomination.The former Massachusetts governor has yet to formally get into the race, but Romney is on a ...

Obama administration appeals healthcare ruling

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday appealed a judge's ruling in Florida that struck down the landmark healthcare overhaul law as unconstitutional.(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, editing by Eric Walsh) Copyright 2011  Reuters US Online Report Top News

Obama offers concession on health law

President Barack Obama Monday offered to bring forward the date by which US states can frame their own health care plans, in an apparent concession to critics of his historic reform law.Obama's mammoth health reform legislation, passed after a monumental political effort ...