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The package would provide full federal funding to Medicaid physician payments to ensure that physicians treat all the new Medicaid patients entering the health care system.Blogs: |
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress scrambled yesterday to scrape together a handful of additional "yes" votes to pass health-care reform in a dramatic showdown on Capitol Hill tomorrow. Just a few votes shy of the 216 needed to pass the landmark overhaul in the House, push...
Here’s how five citizens answered this week’s question posed by Capital Times freelancer Kevin Murphy. What do you think? Please join the discussion.
Health care vote set for this weekend.
North Country Congressman Bill Owens believes the bill will benefit his district and create jobs.
PADUCAH, KY- Democrats with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a district by district study of the potential impact of the vote. The report uses census and health information from Medicare and Medicaid to show how many families and small businesses the reform bill could affect.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claiming unstoppable momentum but still short of the goal line, President Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to rally House Democrats for a final push on landmark health care...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama stormed into the final days of his campaign for a government overhaul of health care touting his nearly $1 trillion plan and attacking insurance companies and Republicans. "This is a patients bill of rights on steroids," he told a cheering audience at George Mason University in...
WASHINGTON - While the Democrats' latest, presumably final, health care bill offers more help to all states to cover the uninsured, a list of demands sought by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to ease the measure's burden on California went all but unmet.
3rd UPDATE:Democrat Leaders Confident Before Health-Care Vote
March 20 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will travel to the U.S. Capitol today to appeal to House Democrats to back sweeping changes in health care on the eve of a vote on legislation that will help define his presidency.
The Catholic bishops have lobbied hard to get Catholic members of Congress to oppose the current health care bill because of language it says could allow some federal funding of abortion. The Catholic hospital group differs on the interpretation of the abortion language and the relative importance of the rest of the bill.
Congressional Democrats have released a final version of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill in advance of a House vote planned for Sunday. Some features of the legislation, which makes changes to the bill the Senate passed on Christmas Eve:
One by one, House Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction.
--1798: The Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen in 1798 marks the beginning of federal involvement in health care.
Claiming unstoppable momentum but still short of the goal line, President Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to rally House Democrats for a final push on landmark health care legislation. The battle tilted in Obama's direction Friday as more Democrats revealed their positions.
