Senate Health Care Bill

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Bernie Sanders Pushes Back On Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics


While conservative members of the Democratic caucus threaten to block passage of health care reform if it includes a public health insurance option, a...

Senate Health Care Bill: What's Next

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...

Senate Votes To Debate Health Care Reform Bill

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...

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Democrats Are United -- For Now

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...

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...

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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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Senate Set To Unveil Health Care Bill Today

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...

The Three Democrats Who Could Block Health Care Reform

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...

Big Pharma Raises Prices 10% Even As It Promises To Cut Nation's Drug Costs

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...

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...

Harry Reid Reassures Democrats That Joe Lieberman Is On Board With Health Care Bill

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...

The Public Option in Congress Is Now a Sham. Who Cares If Lieberman Kills It?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics


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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.

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Reid Punts On Insurance Industry Anti-Trust Exemption

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 ...

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Reid: "The Public Option With An Opt-Out Is The One That's Fair"

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...

Public Option To Be Included In Senate Bill

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...

Schumer: Public Option Near Votes Needed To Pass

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...

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...

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Senate Finance Committee Approves Health Care Reform 14-9

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 ...

Health Care Bill: Baucus Senate Legislation Finally Unveiled

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...

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...

Obama Wants Senate Health Bill By Week's End

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 ...

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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...