Health Care Reform News
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Will Dems heed Obama's eleventh hour call for health care reform?
9:10 AM on 03/04/2010
OPINION - Obama has come closer than any president to passing comprehensive health care reform, yet he has much more work to do...
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Obama's health care reform efforts stymied by politics of prejudice
9:01 AM on 03/03/2010
OPINION - At the heart of this debate is partisan politics, inept leadership and racial prejudice...
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Obama to add some GOP ideas to health care plan
1:09 PM on 03/02/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama will incorporate Republican ideas on medical malpractice reform and trying to rid the health care system of waste and abuse...
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Can reconciliation resuscitate health care reform?
8:30 AM on 03/01/2010
OPINION - Passing legislation has now become as difficult as a military operation - as President Obama will announce a "way forward" on health care reform later this week...
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3/1/10 - theGrio & CNBC Market Update
7:00 AM on 03/01/2010
VIDEO - This week, attention shifts to labor and the consumer credit markets, and continuing reports on manufacturing and service...
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Obama to announce way forward on health care next week
6:08 PM on 02/26/2010
The White House will announce next week -- "probably closer to Wednesday" -- the president's preferred path forward for getting health care legislation passed...
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Obama outwits GOP on health care, now it's Senate Dems' turn
8:18 AM on 02/26/2010
OPINION - This week's televised health care summit reminded America that President Obama is smarter than nearly every Republican on earth...
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Health care summit fact check: Obama has edge in premiums debate
2:59 PM on 02/25/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama and a Republican lawmaker sparred Thursday over what might happen to health insurance premiums in an overhauled system...
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Obama's last stand on health care reform
8:41 AM on 02/25/2010
OPINION - For the first time in a while, Obama is taking the lead and seizing the reins in the health care debate...
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Limbaugh's 'reparations' crowing hits a new, racist low
4:03 PM on 02/24/2010
Once in a while, the dog-whistle messages from the far-right are enough to make one's ears bleed...
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Obama: repeal health insurers antitrust exemption
2:25 PM on 02/23/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to strip health insurers of their decades-old exemption from federal antitrust laws...
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Obama releases his own health care bill in final push for reform
2:10 PM on 02/22/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama made a last-ditch effort Monday to save his signature issue...
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Obama to propose limits on health insurance rates
8:11 AM on 02/22/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Obama is making a fresh attempt to rescue his health care overhaul by proposing a measure that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium increases...
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Obama to offer health bill to ease impasse as bipartisan meeting approaches
4:50 PM on 02/19/2010
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will put forward comprehensive health care legislation intended to bridge differences between Senate and House Democrats...
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White House: Dems near accord on health care bill
4:40 PM on 02/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House and congressional leaders are preparing a detailed health care proposal designed to win passage without Republican support
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Obama to GOP: Let's talk about health care - live
9:20 AM on 02/08/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama says it's time for Republicans who have attacked his health care proposals from the sidelines to step before the cameras and present their own ideas...
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Obama urges nervous Dems to fight for his agenda
4:29 PM on 01/28/2010
TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- President Barack Obama voiced determination Thursday to change the tone of Washington politics and urged Republicans to get "off the sidelines"...
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Obama focuses on 'the Benjamins' in State of the Union
9:14 AM on 01/28/2010
OPINION - President Obama used his standard recipe of charisma, charm and vocal rhythm to renew his national agenda...
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Obama's State of the Union goal: Get agenda moving, people believing
8:53 AM on 01/27/2010
VIDEO -- Facing a divided Congress and a dissatisfied nation, President Obama will unveil a jobs-heavy agenda in his State of the Union address, retooling his message more than his mission...
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Obama should scrap health care reform in State of the Union
9:12 AM on 01/26/2010
OPINION - It will take courage for President Obama to tell Congress to start anew with health care reform. Yet this is what the country needs...
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