Life expectancy low, but growing in city
Women in large swaths of America are dying younger than they were a generation ago, reversing nearly a century of progress in public health and underscoring the rising toll of...
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Insurance firms infuse GOP with big doses of cash
— Faced with wide-ranging new requirements in the health care law, the insurance industry is pouring money into Republican campaign coffers in hopes of scaling back regulations while preserving the...
Health safety net frays with fixes still years off
— Despite passage of the landmark health care overhaul this spring, the nation's health system is continuing to fray, raising the prospect that the country could experience a crisis before...
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New tax eyed for health plan Obama, Congress leaders meet late at White House WASHINGTON -- Democratic congressional leaders, intensifying the health care drive in marathon talks Wednesday at the...
Medicare plan breaks impasse
The unexpected new proposal for breaking the impasse over the so-called public option won President Barack Obama's endorsement Wednesday and sent hopes surging among a wide array of Democrats that...
Senate bill: A closer look
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on Wednesday released his proposal to overhaul the nation's health care system. The bill, which the Senate voted Saturday to begin debate on, would...
Democrats eye diluted public plan
Paving the way for a critical vote on health care legislation in the next two weeks, House Democratic leaders plan to unveil a bill Thursday that would create a new...
CBO estimates Baucus measure’s costs, savings
The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday estimated that the health care reform bill being debated by the Senate Finance Committee would cost $829 billion over the next decade. The nonpartisan...
Adding up costs for health plan
In his speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, President Barack Obama said his plan to overhaul the health-care system should cost "around $900billion over 10 years" --...
In bills, still room for debate over abortion and illegal immigrants
With lawmakers home for their August recess, a fierce battle has broken out over what precisely is in the mammoth health care bills being pushed by congressional Democrats in Washington....