Bernie Sanders Pushes Back On Public Option
While conservative members of the Democratic caucus threaten to block passage of health care reform if it includes a public health insurance option, a...
While conservative members of the Democratic caucus threaten to block passage of health care reform if it includes a public health insurance option, a...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren't met, while more liberal memb...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The Senate has voted to move forward with the health care bill. The vote was 60-39 in favor of debating the bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader...
Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
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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...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Tired as folks may be of hearing this, Wednesday is set to be another big day for health care reform on Capitol Hill. No, really. It is. Senate Demo...
New York Times | CARL HULSE | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, says he is not sure he is ready to help a Democratic health care proposal clear even the most preliminary hu...
New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business
Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...
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...
The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached a private understanding with Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will not block a final vote on healthcare reform, accor...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
With or without a fraudulent public option, millions of Americans who will be required to buy insurance or pay a fine will see their premiums skyrocket.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
Senate negotiators have decided not to include a provision revoking the insurance industry's anti-trust exemption in the bill leadership sends to the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
The public option lives. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a p...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor will give millions of Americans the option of purchasing government-run insura...
AP | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A key Democratic senator says he believes Democrats are close to the 60 votes they need to advance a health care bill that includes...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Sixty-four years ago, President Harry Truman stood before a joint session of Congress and called on the body "to assure the right to adequate medical ...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — His calls for compromise rebuffed by Republicans, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee unveiled sweeping legisla...
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...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and ERICA WERNER | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Tuesday rolled out a far-reaching $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and ...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics