KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Missouri voters on Tuesday rejected the new U.S. healthcare bill, approving a measure that would forbid the federal government from penalizing people who do not buy health insurance. With 78 percent of precincts reporting, 72.6 percent of voters supported the Health Care Freedom Act, also known as Proposition C, while 27.4 percent rejected ...

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 ...

Former President Bill Clinton has seen congressional elections where Republicans dominate. But he says this year is no 1994. The two-term Democratic president says he expects Republicans will make some election gains this fall. But he says Democrats will not lose the House or the Senate ...

With the health care reform bill approved at last, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a quip for fellow lawmakers she'd relied on to help make it happen: "So what are we going to do now?" It was an apt query for everyone in the ...

First-term Rep. Betsy Markey is convinced that once people learn what's in President Barack Obama's new health care overhaul law, they'll support it. But it's not a message she was eager to carry in person to her constituents in Republican-leaning eastern Colorado. During ...

PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday touted the immediate benefits small businesses will receive from his healthcare reforms, in his second speech this week promoting the sweeping plan to a skeptical public. Opinion polls show many voters are unhappy with the healthcare overhaul amid high unemployment and a still-sluggish economy, and could punish Obama's Democratic Party in ...

Washington It was about midnight and tensions at the White House ran high on that January evening. House and Senate leaders had been haggling for days to merge their two health care bills. The heady momentum of passing President Barack ObamaÕs top domestic priority in both ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he would not be dissuaded from taking on new economic challenges after his healthcare reform victory, despite the prospect for continued Republican opposition. "I will continually reach out to Republicans. I will continue to incorporate their ideas, even when they don't vote for the ideas that I've presented," he ...

Repeal the new health care overhaul and replace it with something better, says the Senate's top Republican, who led a solid wall of GOP opposition to the Democratic plan. But Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell doesn't have the votes now to overcome a certain veto by President ...

President Barack Obama has a message for Republicans who say they'll try to repeal his health care overhaul: "Go for it." Obama says those who try to overturn the sweeping changes will have to face voters who see immediate benefits from the ...