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submitted by eooties 11 months ago, from latimes.com
A day after President Obama went to Capitol Hill to renew his call for a sweeping healthcare overhaul, Democrats on Thursday rallied behind him, giving important momentum to the push for legislation this year. Especially important for the White House was the reaction of several conservative... More
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submitted by bafficio 13 months ago, from news.bbc.co.uk
President Obama's key domestic policy objective is to reform the US system of health care. And the next few weeks will be crucial in determining whether he can deliver the fundamental reform that has eluded his predecessors. More
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submitted by chiasma 14 months ago, from latimes.com
Republicans questioned the cost of healthcare reform plans Sunday, and even Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) acknowledged similar concerns and said she wasn't sure there were enough votes among President Obama's fellow Democrats to pass a plan at the moment. More
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submitted by trippie48 15 months ago, from washingtonpost.com
Stepping up his push to reform the nation's health-care system, President Obama yesterday warned of the impact of spiraling costs to the nation's finances. "The status quo is broken," Obama declared in his weekly radio and Internet address. "If we do nothing, everyone's health care will be put in... More
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submitted by grandie4 15 months ago, from latimes.com
President Obama's push for healthcare reforms gets a boost today from a new study by Harvard University researchers that shows a sizable increase over six years in bankruptcies caused in part by ever-higher medical expenses. The study found that medical bills, plus related problems such as lost... More
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submitted by chiasma 16 months ago, from dallasnews.com
Volunteering to "do our part" to tackle runaway health costs, leading groups in the health-care industry have offered to squeeze $2 trillion in savings from projected rate increases over the next decade, White House officials said Sunday. More
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submitted by riverdrops 16 months ago, from cnn.com
The World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert level in response to the outbreak of swine flu that originated in Mexico, as the global count of confirmed cases increased and governments initiated various steps to try to stem the spread. More
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submitted by riverdrops 16 months ago, from latimes.com
Senior Democrats have reached broad agreement on a plan to prevent Republicans from blocking President Obama's sweeping healthcare proposals, congressional officials said Friday. The plan, which would use special provisions of the budget process to prevent a Senate filibuster, threatens to sow... More
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submitted by eooties 18 months ago, from usatoday.com
President Obama will sign an executive order Monday lifting limits on human embryonic stem cell research and will direct federal agencies to "restore scientific integrity" to decision-making, White House aides said Sunday. More
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submitted by chiasma 18 months ago, from boston.com
President Obama presented his goal of fixing the healthcare system as a political imperative, as well as a moral and economic one: Americans, he said, will no longer stand for soaring costs that have bankrupted millions of families, hobbled businesses, and crowded out other public needs. More
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submitted by rodeox 18 months ago, from finance.yahoo.com
To a nation reeling from recession and facing long-festering problems, President Barack Obama has a simple reminder: "We are not quitters." Whatever the problems, the new president promised in the first prime-time speech of his term, "We will rebuild, we will recover and the United States of... More
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submitted by agabriel 19 months ago, from latimes.com
If President Obama is to reshape the nation's healthcare system, he will have to do it without a lieutenant who combined a rare understanding of both healthcare and Washington politics. But Tom Daschle's decision to withdraw from consideration for secretary of Health and Human Services appears... More
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submitted by agabriel 21 months ago, from latimes.com
More than two months before he is sworn in, Barack Obama already is facing a Congress busily asserting itself on the timing and details of the president-elect's agenda, including major issues like healthcare and economic policy. Committee chairmen are unveiling legislation to expand health... More
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submitted by eooties 22 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
The economic crisis will not stop President-elect Barack Obama from expanding health care, overhauling education and energy policy, and passing a middle-class tax cut soon after he takes office in January, senior aides said on Sunday. More
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submitted by agabriel 22 months ago, from nytimes.com
No president since before Barack Obama was born has ascended to the Oval Office confronted by the accumulation of seismic challenges awaiting him. Historians grasping for parallels point to Abraham Lincoln taking office as the nation was collapsing into Civil War, or Franklin D. Roosevelt arriving.. More
