Senate Health Care

Senate Health Care Bill: What's Next

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Senate moderates on Sunday threatened to scuttle the health care bill if their demands weren't met, frustrating rank-and-file Democ...

Health Care Vote: LIVE UPDATES

Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics


Watch the health care debate live through our curated Twitter lists. Do you know a tweeter who's perfect for one of these lists? Email us at twitterli...

Ron Wyden Wins Big Concession On Health Insurance Exchanges

The Hill | Jeffrey Young | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) have taken a long stride toward locking down the...

Mary Landrieu Wooed To Back Health Care With $100 Million For Her State

Bloomberg | James Rowley and Kristin Jensen | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics


Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, one of three lawmakers being wooed by Democratic leaders to back health-care legislation, won the inclusion of an ext...

White House Pep Talk To Dems On Health Care: "We Must All Hang Together, Or Assuredly We Shall All Hang Separately"

TIME | Karen Tumulty / Washington Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


With health reform's first test vote on the Senate floor less than 72 hours away, a platoon of top strategists -- including pollsters Mark Mellman and...

Harry Reid: 'I'm Not Using Reconciliation'

Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


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...

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Senate Dems Close In On Reform: Details Of Health Care Bill Revealed

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


Read the bill (PDF). Senate Democrats have posted the legislation on their web site. --------- Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive...

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Boxer: Senate Has Votes To Block Stupak Amendment

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


With Reporting By Ryan Grim One of Congress's foremost champions of abortion rights said on Monday that the Senate did not have the votes to add a mo...

No Men: The Most Ornery, Obstructionist Senators

The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


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 ...

Concerned Obama Pressures Senate To Pass Health Care Bill

New York Times | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


The White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up press...

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Graham: House Health Care Bill Would Die In Senate (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) declared on Sunday that the health care legislation passed by the House of Representatives would be "dead on arrival" ...

Harry Reid: Health Care Bill May Not Be Finished This Year

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — In a blow to the White House, the Senate's top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for pas...

Health Care Provision Would Cover Christian Science Prayer Treatments

The Los Angeles Times | Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics


Reporting from Washington - Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill woul...

Senate Health Care Bill Will Get Every Democrat's Vote, Says Baucus

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — When it comes time to vote, every Democrat in the Senate – and perhaps more than one Republican – will support legislat...

Senate Democrats Launch Attack On Insurer Anti-Trust Exemption

POLITICO | Patrick O'Conner and Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics


The long-simmering tension between insurers and congressional Democrats is erupting into open warfare, with lawmakers stepping up their push to revoke...

Baucus Health Care Bill: Negotiators Haggle Over Differences

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Senate health care negotiators said Monday they've narrowed their differences on a host of difficult issues with just a day or so l...

Dems Ready To Amend Baucus Health Bill; Kerry Predicts "Tug Of War"

thehill.com | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics


Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee are poised to demand changes to the healthcare legislation being drafted by their chairman. Finance Committ...

Sam Stein

Obama To Use Biden To Twist Senate Arms On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Even as the White House concedes that its options for recruiting Republican support on health care have dwindled, if not passed altogether, administra...

Ryan Grim

Senate Ends Health Care Talks For The Week With No Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


A bipartisan group of seven members of the Finance Committee huddled all day Thursday, hoping to hammer out a compromise piece of health care legislat...

Feinstein: Obama May Not Have Votes To Pass Health Care

Bloomberg | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics


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Kennedy Health Care Reform Bill Released -- Help Us Read Through It

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics


Dropping in at 615 pages is the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's attempt to fix the broken health care system. The HELP Commit...