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Obama Health Care Reform

White House Open To Deal On Public Health Plan

Wall Street Journal | LAURA MECKLER and JANET ADAMY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The White House signaled a willingness Monday to compromise on details of a public plan to compete with private insurance companies as n...

White House, Hospitals Near Deal For $150 Billion In Cost Savings

New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON The Obama administration and major hospital associations on Monday evening were nearing a deal for about $150 billion in cost savings to he...

Sam Stein

Lieberman Reprises Role As Health Care Spoiler

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

With reporting by Laura Dean Sen. Joseph Lieberman affirmed on Tuesday what progressive health care reform advocates have long feared: At this junctu...

Bizarro World of Health Care Reform: Standing Language On Its Head

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Michele Swenson

Corporate socialism remains at the center of our "uniquely American" failed, fragmented, U.S. health insurance model that emulates the Wall Street norm of privatized profit and socialized risk.

Dianne Feinstein: Criticism From Left On Health Care "Doesn't Move Me One Whit"

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Senator Dianne Feinstein has already taken a hammering from Dems and health care reform advocates for casting doubts on the prospects of President Oba...

Krugman Slams Obama On Health Care Reform: Not Enough Audacity

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

When it comes to domestic policy, there are two Barack Obamas. On one side there's Barack the Policy Wonk, whose command of the issues and ability to...

Obama News Conference: WATCH LIVE VIDEO

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

President Barack Obama will hold a news conference Tuesday, and is expected to open the afternoon event with remarks on health care reform, energy leg...

ABC Responds To "False" RNC Attack On Planned Health Care Special

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

An executive from ABC News has responded to a letter from RNC Chief of Staff Ken McKay that criticized a planned ABC series about health care, set to ...

Obama Booed By Some Doctors At AMA Speech

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama isn't used to hearing boos. For all the young president's popularity, the response he got Monday from doctors at an A...

Obama AMA Speech: President Urges Doctors To Back Reform

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON and JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

CHICAGO — President Barack Obama bluntly told doctors Monday he is against their highest legislative priority _ limiting malpractice awards _ an...

Obama's Bank Overhaul May Stall As Congress Tackles Health Care, Climate Control

Bloomberg News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

June 16 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration's revamp of U.S. banking and market regulations may be stalled into next year as Congress and the pres...

HuffPost's Ryan Grim Discusses Obama's Road Map To Health Care Reform

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Huff TV

Huffington Post senior congressional correspondent Ryan Grim appeared on MSNBC's The Ed Show Monday to provide insight into Obama's health care priori...

OBAMACARE: Will It Be Affordable Universal Health Care or a Government Bailout for the Insurance Companies?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Miles Mogulescu

The problem is that an overly compromised health reform bill that satisfies the health insurance lobby and its Democratic and Republican supporters in Congress may not be "good" at all.

Fixing Health Care Does Not Require a "Bi-Partisan" Bill -- It Does Require a Public Health Insurance Option

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert Creamer

While a public health insurance option may not have bi-partisan support in Congress, it has big time bi-partisan support among the voters.

Sam Stein

Obama Plugs Staff Into Hill Health Care Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

One of the key measures the Obama White House has employed in crafting a comprehensive health care reform package is to ensure that the avenues of com...

Obama Aims To Build Momentum For Health Reform

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is leaving the door open to taxing health care benefits, something he campaigned hard against while running ...

Sam Stein

Obama: Health Care Reform This Year -- Or Never

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that if health care reform didn't take place this year, it won't be completed during his presidency. "We ne...

Congressional Budget Office Could Kill Health Care Reform, Again

tnr.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Everywhere you look, health care reform seems to be chugging along. Insurers and drug companies are visiting the White House to show solidarity with P...

Health Care Reform: Beware of Interest Groups Bearing Gifts

Henry Aaron | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Henry Aaron

The representatives of hospitals, insurers, and drug companies have a fiduciary responsibility to represent the private interests of their members and shareholders.

Top Health Care Industry Reps To Offer $2 Trillion In Savings In Bid To Help Pass Obama's Overhaul: AP

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's plan to provide medical insurance for all Americans took a big step toward becoming reality Sunday after l...

To Build a Bridge

Linda P. Fried | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Linda P. Fried

We need to create the infrastructure for a new kind of health system: one that brings clinic and community together.

Health Care Reform in Critical Condition

Roy Ulrich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Roy Ulrich

From my point of view, and from the point of view of most liberals familiar with the subject, real health care reform must include a "public" option - that is, one that competes with private insurance.

How Obama Convinced His Advisers To Push Health-Care Reform

The New Republic | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

In early January, most of Barack Obama's senior staff assembled with the president-elect for a meeting inside a windowless, eighth-floor office at the...

Healthcare Enemy No. 1: The Millionaire Republican Who Could Kill Reform

The Nation | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Rush Limbaugh offers Democrats an irresistible target as the de facto leader of the Republican Party, but for my money, Rick Scott is the man who best...

Washington Should Look to Wisconsin for Answer to Health Care Reform

Gov. Jim Doyle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Gov. Jim Doyle

While many states are cutting back on health care programs, here in Wisconsin we are moving forward, expanding access to health care at an unprecedented rate.