Topic: The White House
Last month Karen Ignagni held a conference call with reporters to announce the release of a new study commissioned by her lobby, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Ignagni and her lobby are unused to being on the losing side of the political ...
After six months of angry debate, one final bill ready for roll call WASHINGTON The long, national health care debate is about to come to an end, at least in one chamber of Congress. Shelley Berkley and Dina Titus are ready to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to offer an alternative to Democrats' massive healthcare reform bill that would not raise taxes or require people or businesses to buy health insurance, the House Republican leader said on Sunday.House ...
It was Sept. 27, 1993, and Congressman Jim Cooper stood anxiously in the White House-not the tour-guided White House, but the family quarters upstairs. That was health care, a key issue for the Clinton administration as it devised a plan for universal ...
President Barack Obama's top Senate ally announced plans Monday to start debate on historic legislation to remake US health care, including a controversial government-backed insurance plan.After months of often fevered nationwide debate, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate would ...
Lawmakers worry about patients - and try to be patient - in push for health care billIn Congress these days, the health care debate is as much about patience as patients.In a closed-door meeting of feisty House Democrats this past week, Speaker ...
In Congress these days, the health care debate is as much about patience as patients.In a closed-door meeting of feisty House Democrats this past week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., served notice that in these final days before the Senate and House present ...
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - The Obama administration likely erred in giving Congress summer deadlines to move on U.S. healthcare reform legislation, a top White House official said on Wednesday. "I might rethink that if we were to start over again," David Axelrod, ...
Negotiations have reached the stage where Harry Reid, administration top guns are deeply involved WASHINGTON To understand just how all-consuming the health care debate is on Capitol Hill, consider this: Every day the House was in session last week, Democrats scheduled party-wide ...
Adviser says Obama waiting to see a finished health care bill, holds off on specificsThe White House is waiting for Congress to settle on a final health care bill, even though President Barack Obama has a clear preference in favor of at ...
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