A TAX HIKE BY ANY OTHER NAME As a candidate and President, Barack Obama has had one core message for the middle class: ...
EMBATTLED INSURERS Are health insurance companies covered for shooting themselves in the foot? They have been making nice with the White House and ...
AP sources: Individuals would be required to buy coverage in Senate bill Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms would owe significant penalties if any worker needed government subsidies to ...
AP sources: Individuals would be required to buy coverage in Senate bill Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms would owe significant penalties if any worker needed government subsidies to ...
President of corrections association says his plan would eliminate need for furloughs CARSON CITY — Prison officials have spent the past few months trying to trim costs without forcing employees to take monthly furloughs, which they argue would endanger prison guards and ...
Not long ago, as attention centered on the Senate Finance Committee's moderate health- care reform bill, pundits dismissed the idea of a publicly run insurance program to compete with private insurers as all but dead. Now, as Senate leaders are close to ...
HEALTH REFORM ADVANCES Congress took another step toward healing the health-care system on Oct. 13 when the all-important Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 in favor of a reform bill that would cost $829 billion over 10 years. After intense, months-long negotiations, the ...
WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 21: Senate Finance Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) meets with Montana citizens at a coffee shop October 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. His Senate Finance Committee passed health care legislation last week considered the most moderate of the five ...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama hit back at the health insurance industry on Thursday, accusing it of trying to deceive Americans about healthcare reform and vowing to overhaul the industry in Congress. Obama criticized insurers for running advertisements critical ...
Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, followed by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., steps out of an elevator as she makes her way to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, for a vote, one day after siding with Democrats ...
President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, after the Senate Finance Committee voted to approve a health care bill. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Copyright 2009 AP News
Unions plan ad announcing opposition to Senate Finance Committee bill unless it's changed About 30 unions will run a full-page ad in newspapers Wednesday announcing their opposition to the Senate Finance Committee's health overhaul bill, a top labor lobbyist said. The ad ...
