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Health care reform may end with passing of its torchbearer: Ted Kennedy
Sen. Edward Kennedy’s death yesterday may be used to ignite calls for health care reform (read: health insurance reform), but in the end his death may mean the final dagger for those reform efforts....
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Dems hope Kennedy death propels passage of health care reform
According to an ABC News article, Democrats are hoping that the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy will ignite support for health care reform being pushed by Congress and President Obama, and which has met...
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Panic rules as Democrats race to avoid the will of Mass. and America
Newspapers across the nation report that “panicky” Democrats (including President Obama) are considering swallowing hard, avoiding compromise, and agreeing to pass the Senate version of health care...
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America spoke with Massachusetts election, but will Congress listen?
In a victory speech after his Democrat opponent conceded, Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown said that the voters of Massachusetts spoke for the rest of America in its repudiation of Congress’s...
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Pelosi: House cannot pass Senate’s health reform bill as is
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters today (Jan. 21) that she does not “see the votes” in her chamber of Congress to pass the Senate’s comprehensive health reform bill without changes. Nancy...
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Diagnoses vary in Washington, D.C., on status of health care reform
While no one is ready to declare that health reform initiatives being weighed by Congress are dead, Democrats and Republicans have very differing views of the condition of one final piece of...
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Obama calls for a pause on health care reform, vows to ‘not walk away’
Health care reform was front and center the first time President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress last year, but moved to the background in his latest address Wednesday night (Jan....
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Obama: ‘Health insurance reform’ has become law
Recognizing the difficult path to health reform and ignoring the potential legal hurdles to come, President Barack Obama signed into law sweeping health reform amid a rousing audience at the White...
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House passes revised bill ‘to strengthen health insurance reform’
Echoing a phrase uttered earlier this week by President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi applauded her colleagues in the U.S. House for voting in favor of a measure “to strengthen health...
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Carter says Sen. Kennedy stopped universal health care proposal
Former President Jimmy Carter says the federal health reform that was passed in March could have occurred decades ago and in a more sweeping way. Edward M. Kennedy Carter in an interview blames the...
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Public health insurance plan one step closer to law
After a month of mark-ups, amendments and compromise, the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has passed legislation to overhaul U.S. healthcare. The HELP Committee’s legislation...
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Newest bill seeks to keep those lying, cheating health insurers ‘honest’
Now that the House has introduced health “reform” legislation, along comes Sen. Ted Kennedy with his own public health insurance plan, according to IFAwebnews.com. The plan, according to President...
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PIA president describes ‘nightmare’ reform scenarios
The president of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) is voicing his concern over efforts in Washington, D.C., to reform health care and state insurance regulation, likening...
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Massachussets model for health care reform finds itself target of lawsuit
It appears that in Massachusetts — which is the model for nationwide health care reform a la President Obama and Sen. Ted Kennedy — not everyone is happy, especially those who provide the health care....
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Senate ponders no public insurance plan; House could vote in September
As the final House vote on a health care reform bill will likely be delayed until the fall, the Senate is pondering its own legislation that may omit key Democratic goals, including a public health...
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