White House Health Care

White House Spokesman Recasts Obama's Comments On Possible 'Unprecedented' Health Care Ruling

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.04.2012

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WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney spent Wednesday parsing words in defense of President Barack Obama's claim that it would be "unpr...

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Horse-Race Obsessions Occlude Health Care Reform Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.30.2011

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Yesterday, the Sixth Court of Appeals provided a lift to proponents of health care reform when it ruled that the Affordable Care Act was constitutiona...

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White House Spokesman Knocks Press For Distorted Coverage Of Health Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 08.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney praised Wednesday's "very significant" court ruling upholding health care reform and hit the pres...

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White House Reacts To Romney's Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration, on Friday, continued to apply a veritable death hug to likely Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, p...

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White House Tries Hand At Yet Another Health Care Sales Job

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Over the next week, a large number of progressive groups, health care advocacy organizations and high-profile administration officials a...

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Robert Gibbs: Obama Interested In Speaking To Chamber Of Commerce

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed reports on Monday that the president was entertaining the idea of making a big speech...

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The White House, Chamber Of Commerce Attempt Rapprochement

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The relationship between the Obama White House and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has always been too complicated to define as simply acri...

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Health Care Advocates Deny They've Lost The Messaging War

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Key White House allies are pushing back against a report that they've abandoned their initial efforts to sell health care reform and are instead tryin...

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The Hidden Winners of Healthcare Reform: Women Over 40

Lesley Jane Seymour | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Times proclaimed that uninsured Americans are the biggest beneficiaries of health care reform, but the measure will also be a boon to a less obvious group: women over 40.

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Obama's Health Care Fight Continues: Must Sell The Bill To American People

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP)-- Even with victory in hand, President Barack Obama can't put health care to rest. He still has to sell skeptical Americans on the be...

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AFL-CIO Will Support Health Care Despite Last-Minute Setback

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The powerful union conglomerate AFL-CIO will fully support the health care bill and campaign for its passage despite a last-minute setback over a chan...

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Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO Chief, Called To White House Over Last Minute Health Care Flare Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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With a health care reform proposal being patched together for final consideration in the House of Representatives, gripes over a key element of the le...

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David Axelrod: Health Care Lobbyists Descending Like 'Locusts' On Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod warned on Sunday that health care industry lobbyists were descending on skeptical Democratic lawmakers "like ...

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Barack Obama, Campaign Manager: How The 2008 Playbook Passed Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shortly before 11 a.m. on a Sunday in mid-December, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was driving through Washington D.C. when he received a nervous p...

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Obama Pushing Health Care End-Game

AP | DAVID ESPO and PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack ...

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White House Optimistic That House Has Health Care Cover

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration believes it gained a valuable boost last week in getting health care passed when a 50th Democratic senator informally announc...

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Gibbs: House Will Pass Senate's Bill By March 18

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration predicted on Thursday that the House of Representatives will pass the Senate's health care bill by the time the president tra...

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Health Care Deadline In TWO WEEKS: Dems Want Bill Finished By March 18

Posted 05.25.2011

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The deadline for accomplishing health care reform, which for months has been a moving target, has moved yet again. This time to March 18, before Presi...

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House Democrats May Switch Health Care Votes

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Nine House Democrats indicated in an Associated Press survey Monday they have not ruled out switching their "no" votes to "yes" on ...

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Steny Hoyer: House Must Move First On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Sunday that the House must move on a package of fixes to the health care bill before the Senate...

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Gibbs: The Public Plan Doesn't Have The Votes

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House made it official on Tuesday: the president doesn't think the votes are there to get a public option passed through reconciliation and ...

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POLL: Nearly Two-Thirds Of Americans Want Congress To Keep Trying On Health Care

Posted 05.25.2011

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A large majority of Americans still want Congress to pass health care reform, according to early results from a Washington Post-ABC News poll released...

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White House Warns Against Dropping Health Care As Party Grows Skittish

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democratic officials were roiled by the news on Tuesday night that the supermajority they held in Congress, and the legislative possibilities that cam...

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Kerry Charges Brown With Palin-Like Tactics As Dems Prepare For Worst

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) lashed out at Scott Brown's Massachusetts senatorial campaign on Monday for adopting "intimidation tactics" that he deemed "...

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Biden Makes An Appeal For Health Care Reform: 'Who Do You Trust?'

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a new video on the official White House blog, Vice President Joe Biden makes an appeal for health care reform by asking Americans, "Who do you trus...

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