Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is warning that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul would hurt those with special needs by raising insurance costs. Palin said Tuesday at a fundraiser for a ministry serving special needs children that new rules that raise $13 ...

In a defiant last stand against a newly passed health care overhaul, opponents are trying everything they can to stop it from becoming the law of the land. Republicans in the Senate are planning parliamentary maneuvers to keep a companion bill from reaching the president's desk. And lawmakers in at least 30 states are working to prevent what they ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain charged on Thursday that the Democrats' healthcare plan was drafted "behind closed-doors" despite President Barack Obama's campaign vow of openness on the issue. "Both of us ... promised 'change in Washington,'" McCain, who challenged Obama for president in the 2008 election, reminded him at the White House healthcare summit. "Eight times you said negotiations ...

Top Senate Republicans say President Barack Obama's drive for a health care overhaul has become a closed-door, partisan effort that is aiding drug companies and other medical providers. As Obama met privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said the exclusion ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate began work on a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Monday, with senators on both sides pouncing on findings in a nonpartisan budget report on insurance premiums to bolster their arguments. With the debate expected to last up to three weeks, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid warned senators they would work on weekends if necessary to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders promised swift action on a healthcare overhaul on Thursday after a high-stakes speech by President Barack Obama that earned good public reviews but appeared to change few minds in Congress. Democrats hoped Obama's prime-time address to a joint session of Congress would dispel public skepticism and generate new momentum for his drive to reshape the ...

President Barack Obama is including a proposal from his Republican rival last year as part of his health care reform plan. In his Wednesday night speech to Congress, Obama said he wants to help Americans who can't get insurance because they have pre-existing medical ...

Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had to leave. The Arizona senator hadn't yet opened up the meeting at McCain's ...

An independent senator counted on by Democrats in the health care debate showed signs of wavering Sunday when he urged President Barack Obama to postpone many of his initiatives because of the economic downturn. "I'm afraid we've got to think about putting a lot ...