Topic: Medicare

Seniors wary as they await effect of Obama's health care overhaul; there'll be winners, losersSeniors aren't celebrating President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.While Democrats hail the sweeping legislation as the greatest expansion of the social safety net since Medicare, they also fear ...
The biggest health care overhaul in nearly half a century is about to become reality.. The bill now goes to President Barack Obama for his certain approval. After the vote, House Democrats broke out into a chorus of "Yes we can, yes ...
The biggest health care overhaul in nearly half a century is about to become reality.. The bill now goes to President Barack Obama for his certain approval. After the vote, House Democrats broke out into a chorus of "Yes we can, yes ...
Congressional budget scorekeepers say a Medicare fix that Democrats included in earlier versions of their health care bill would push it into the red.The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that rolling back a programmed cut in Medicare fees to doctors would cost ...
President Barack Obama is determined to lower the costs and create new jobs in health care. Today, Obama launched a new health care reform plan that is mainly modeled after the Senate Health Care Reform Bill. It increases the Medicare payroll tax ...
Fed, state gov't to pick up bill for more than half the nation's health care by 2012 Government is poised to become king of the hill in America's vast health care system, with or without President Barack Obama's planned redo, according an ...
THE INFLUENCE GAME:Drugmakers, business organizations and other interest groups in the health care battle have dialed down expensive lobbying campaigns as they assess how last month's stunning Republican capture of a Senate seat from Massachusetts has altered Washington's political landscape.Denied their 60-seat ...
Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a climactic Christmas Eve vote that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the country's history. "We are now finally poised to deliver ...
Text of President Barack Obama speaking Thursday about the Senate passing a health care reform bill, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions. Good morning, everybody.In a historic vote that took place this morning, members of the Senate joined their colleagues in the House ...

Senate Passes Health Reform Package

Senate Democrats gave President Barack Obama a Christmas Eve gift on Thursday with passage of a landmark health care bill that would extend coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans.. Obama said the Senate bill contains 95 percent of the health reforms that ...