Congress is in the final phase of debating one of the most consequential issues before the nation: reform of the health care system. Congressional decisions on health care will directly affect the lives of 300 million Americans. Congressman Tom Price ...
Angry constituents made it clear this past summer that ObamaCare was too expensive, too intrusive and moving too quickly through the legislative process. So you’d think Congress would take those issues to heart when it merged a bill in the House of ...
The Senate Finance Committee will soon vote on the big Baucus Health Bill. Because there is still no legislative language, tt is a “conceptual” bill. The amendments to the bill, which made some headlines over the past two weeks, are likewise ...
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) is proposing major changes to the Medicare program under the America's Healthy Future Act of 2009. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), these changes would reduce Medicare spending by hundreds of billions of ...
Washington likes to style itself as the center of the political universe, but this summer, the real action is in the states. At town-hall meetings, voters are giving their elected representatives plenty to think about. Many lawmakers and the Obama ...
Liberals in Congress say they want a public plan to compete against private health insurance in order to give Americans more choice and competition. Ponder that. The reason that argument is so puzzling is that it is routinely made by Congressmen who ...
President Obama and congressional leaders are desperately searching for a way to finance their fast-track power grab over the health-care sector. Both the House and Senate bills, backed by the administration, would cost well over $1 trillion over 10 ...
Members of Congress, pursuing President Barack Obama's health policy agenda, want to create a national health insurance exchange as a platform for a public health care plan to compete against private health insurance. Variants of the exchange proposal ...
PRESIDENT Obama and con gressional leaders are des perately searching for a way to finance their fast-track power grab over the health-care sector. Both the House and Senate bills, backed by the administration, would cost well over $1 trillion over 10 ...
At the White House's urging, Congress is going to try to overhaul America's health-care system -- a sixth of the entire US economy -- in the next three weeks. The 1,018-page House bill and the 615-page Senate bill are now available for your reading ...
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