FDA Would Boost Food Inspections Under New Senate Bill
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration would have to step up inspections of food plants under legislation the Senate is expected to pass ...
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration would have to step up inspections of food plants under legislation the Senate is expected to pass ...
AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.17.2011
WASHINGTON — Better beat the crowd and find a doctor. Primary care physicians already are in short supply in parts of the country, and the land...
AOL News | Russell Berman | Posted 05.25.2011
As the House moves toward passing sweeping health care reform, the threats from Senate Republicans keep coming. The latest is a promise to force a bat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that she would not include a public option in a health care reconciliation package that the House wil...
Politics Daily | Janet W. Battaile | Posted 05.25.2011
Late last year, I learned two things at about the same time: My cancer was coming back, and I had gotten a new insurance plan. Since then, I've learne...
New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will put forward comprehensive health care legislation intended to bridge differences between Senate and House Democrats...
Suzanne Langlois | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Joseph Lieberman is the rarest of creatures, a political Chimera. He calls himself an Independent, caucuses with the Democrats and is at his core a staunch conservative.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Abortion opponents in the Senate want tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, similar to the limits passed by the Hous...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — About 30 unions will run a full-page ad in newspapers Wednesday announcing their opposition to the Senate Finance Committee's healt...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
The silver lining, according to many economists who support the Cadillac insurance tax, is that employers will then take the money they're not spending on health care and give it to their workers as wages. That's probably wrong.
latimes.com | Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook | Posted 05.25.2011
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday unveiled his long-awaited plan for expanding medical coverage to millions more Americans over ...
The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 05.25.2011
When Sen. Joe Lieberman issued fresh threats to filibuster any health-care reform proposal including a public option, he did more than just blunt the ...
New York Times | Robert Pear and Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Posted 05.25.2011
After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama's arms-length ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
Some of the current bill's provisions are going to hurt the Democrats and will probably cost them seats unless they're removed. How can a smaller group of Democrats do what a bigger group could not?
Bloomberg | James Rowley and Kristin Jensen | Posted 05.25.2011
Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, one of three lawmakers being wooed by Democratic leaders to back health-care legislation, won the inclusion of an ext...
Politics Daily | Patricia Murphey | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) told Politics Daily Tuesday that he plans to introduce an amendment to the Senate health care reform bill similar to the ame...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) was pressed earlier this week on whether he knew how many constituents in his district were uninsured. The conservative congr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Senate Democrats emerged from a caucus-wide meeting Wednesday evening tight-lipped about the elements of the "broad agreement" that has been reached o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
The health care reform package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Wednesday night bars the use of federal funds for abortion servi...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to pass health care legislation by year's end, pointedly telling sk...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the most likely Republican vote for the Democratic health care bill, told reporters Thursday that she would not vote to ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Joe Lieberman has forced his will on the Senate Democratic caucus and the nation as a whole. After the party reached a compromise last week to effecti...
Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the first key test vote on his $848 billion health care bill will be taken Saturday, but he declined to say whe...
The Stamford Advocate | Devon Lash | Posted 05.25.2011
Quietly holding candles, hundreds of clergymen, congregants and reform advocates lined the sidewalks outside Independent U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's Sta...
The Los Angeles Times | Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger | Posted 05.25.2011
Reporting from Washington - Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill woul...
AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011