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Obama pitches health plan in spirited appearance |
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March 8, 2010 |
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Stirring memories of his campaign for the White House, President Barack Obama made a spirited, shirt-sleeved appeal for passage of long-stalled health care changes Monday as Democratic congressional leaders worked behind the scenes on legislation they hope can quickly gain passage.
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In final push, Obama stresses bill's reforms will rein in cost of healthcare |
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March 8, 2010 |
President Barack Obama said his healthcare plan takes into account "every single serious idea" on cost containment from both parties.
Obama made the remark in a stump speech Monday in Glenside, Pa., where he sought to address GOP criticisms that his health plan doesn't do enough to contain rising costs.
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Obama Takes Health Care Deadline to Democrats |
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March 4, 2010 |
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President Obama, beginning a full-court press for his health care overhaul, met Thursday with insurance industry executives and House Democrats as party leaders on Capitol Hill struggled to figure out whether they could meet the president’s timetable for enacting legislation within a few weeks.
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Obama: 'Congress owes the American people a final vote on healthcare' |
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March 3, 2010 |
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President Barack Obama launched the endgame on healthcare Wednesday, urging Congress to “finish its work.” Obama said he believes Congress owes the American people a final up-or-down vote on healthcare reform, but did not use the word reconciliation.
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Obama cites GOP ideas as he preps health care plan |
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March 2, 2010 |
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President Barack Obama embraced a handful of Republican
health care ideas Tuesday to lure Democratic votes as he prepared to
spell out his final package for a sharply divided House and Senate,
where its fate is unsure.
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Nelson defends Senate health bill, signals strong backing for reform |
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March 2, 2010 |
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Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who withheld his support for the Senate-passed healthcare reform bill until practically the last minute, strongly hinted that he is prepared to back the final push to finish the job this spring.
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White House summit allows Dems to hit reset button on healthcare
reform |
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February 27, 2010 |
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President Barack Obama's health summit didn't change any votes, but
it did give Democrats a new beginning in their effort to reform the
nation's healthcare system.
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Obama to GOP on healthcare: 'Let's get this done' |
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February 27, 2010 |
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President Barack Obama said Saturday he is ready to compromise with Republicans on health care if they are serious about it, but that an overhaul must go forward. "Let's get this done," he said.
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McCain to attend Obama health care summit |
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February 23, 2010 |
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President Obama and John
McCain -- together again, this time on health care.
McCain, who lost the 2008
election to Obama, will be part of the Senate Republican delegation
to Thursday's health care summit, the GOP leadership team announced
today.
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Obama Readies a Fallback Health-Care Proposal |
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February 24, 2010 |
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President Barack Obama will use a bipartisan summit Thursday to push
for sweeping health-care legislation, but if that fails to generate
enough support the White House has prepared the outlines of a more
modest plan.
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Obama sets stage for summit fight |
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February 22, 2010 |
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President Barack Obama unveiled a detailed healthcare proposal on
Monday that closely tracked legislation favored by Democrats,
setting the stage for a contentious bipartisan summit at the Blair
House on Thursday.
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Obama's healthcare summit sets stage for end-game |
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February 9, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's call for a healthcare summit including both his fellow Democrats and Republicans sets the stage for a final push to get stalled legislation through Congress, but skeptical Republicans said on Monday the only solution is to start over.
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Obama urges Dem senators to finish the job on healthcare |
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February 03, 2010 |
During a visit with the conference on Wednesday, President Barack Obama pushed Senate Democrats to "finish the job" on healthcare.
Obama urged the Senate Democratic Conference to push forward on healthcare and financial regulatory reform despite concerns about taking tough votes in an election year.
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Renewing Promise of 'Change,' Obama Tries to Reset Agenda |
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January 28, 2010 |
President Obama renewed virtually all his campaign promises in the State of the Union address Wednesday night. Now he's got to deliver.
The road to restoring public confidence in Washington and in his ability to lead it starts Thursday in Tampa, where Obama will hold a town hall meeting and discuss federal investment in mass transit. The visit comes as the president vows to make the economy and jobs creation his top focus in 2010, while continuing to press ahead with his ambitious agenda on everything ranging from health care reform to education to immigration reform.
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Nancy Pelosi's health-care strategy |
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January 27, 2010 |
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Hours before she was to host President Obama's State of the Union address, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi laid out a road map for winning final approval of comprehensive health-care reform. Her message: "We need to get this done. Process, I don't care about. But we need to get this done, one way or another." Click
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Democrats place new roadblock to health care bill |
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January 26, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON – Two centrist senators Tuesday threw up a roadblock to salvaging President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, as Democrats agonized over whether to push forward or shift to idle until political resistance subsides.
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Despite vows, Dems following
similar script on health reform |
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January 24, 2010 |
Parallels between Obama’s and Clinton’s 1994 health efforts emerge despite great pains taken by Democrats.
Democrats have taken great pains to avoid the healthcare missteps Bill Clinton made, but this year is looking more and more like a rerun of 1994.
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Ten Reasons health reform stalled |
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January 24, 2010 |
President Barack Obama’s hope for healthcare reform is in peril, and it’s not all because of Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts.
The tough spot in which Democrats find themselves is the result of a dozens of decisions made over the past year.
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Decision time looming for new Democratic healthcare strategy |
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January 23, 2010 |
As prospects for sweeping healthcare reform dim, Democrats say they expect to have a clearer view of what their options are in the coming days.
For now, the general consensus is for the party to calm down and think the matter through.
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Democrats see healthcare finish line |
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January 14, 2010 |
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President Barack Obama and House Democrats claimed significant
progress Thursday as momentum appeared to increase for a swift final
action on healthcare reform.
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Obama seizes reins in daylong House-Senate healthcare meeting |
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January 13, 2010 |
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President Barack Obama sought to muscle House and Senate Democrats
to reach an accord on healthcare reform during a daylong White House
meeting Wednesday.
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President Signals Flexibility on Health Plan Tax |
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January 11, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON — President Obama told union leaders at a private White House meeting on Monday that he remained committed to taxing high-cost insurance policies as a way to drive down health costs. But he also signaled that he was willing to amend the proposal to “make this work for working families,” a senior administration official said.
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Dems intend to bypass GOP on health compromise |
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January 4, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON – House and Senate Democrats intend to bypass traditional
procedures when they negotiate a final compromise on
health care
legislation, officials said Monday, a move that will exclude
Republican lawmakers and reduce their ability to delay or force
politically troubling votes in both houses.
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Senate passes historic healthcare reform legislation in 60-39 vote |
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December 24, 2009 |
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The Senate approved sweeping healthcare reform legislation by the narrowest of partisan margins early Christmas Eve morning, placing President Barack Obama closer than ever to signing a longtime Democratic priority into law.
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Medical Charts: The Senate vs. the House on Health Care Reform |
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December 23, 2009 |
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Early Christmas Eve morning, Senators are due to vote aye or nay on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as their vision of how to reform health care in America.
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Final Senate healthcare vote bumped up to 7 a.m. on Thursday to ease travel |
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December 23, 2009 |
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A final vote on the Senate's healthcare bill will now take place at 7 a.m. on Christmas Eve — an hour earlier than lawmakers originally
scheduled.
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Health care bill clears 2nd Senate hurdle Tues. |
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December 22, 1009 |
WASHINGTON – Two down and one to go. The health care bill has passed another 60-vote test in the Senate.
Democrats remained united as they started voting at sunrise Tuesday, pushing toward their goal of passing President Barack Obama's health care overhaul by Christmas.
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Democrats’ health bill passes key Senate vote |
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Final outcome uncertain as measure must be harmonized with House bill |
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December 21, 2009 |
| WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats won a crucial test vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, putting them on track for passage before Christmas of the historic legislation to remake the nation's medical system and cover 30 million uninsured.
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Democrats vow to close Medicare 'doughnut hole' |
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December 17, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON – It's an annual ordeal for many seniors living on a
budget. Medicare's coverage gap for
prescription drugs - $3,610 next year - has steadily gotten
bigger since the benefit's inception. But if Democrats have their
way on health care overhaul, the dreaded "doughnut hole" will shrink
by $500 right away and go away altogether by 2019.
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Health bill survives first big test — on Medicare |
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December 3, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON – Unflinching on a critical first test, Senate Democrats closed ranks Thursday behind $460 billion in politically risky Medicare cuts at the heart of health care legislation, thwarting a Republican attempt to doom President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul.
The bid by the bill's critics to reverse cuts to the popular Medicare program failed on a vote of 58-42, drawing the support of two Democratic defectors. Approval would have stripped out money needed to pay for expanding coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans.
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Senate Dems prep for hardball tactics in health debate
after floor
strategizing |
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December 2, 2009 |
Senate Democrats threatened to pull out the procedural stops to force votes on amendments to the healthcare reform bill on the floor as the GOP continues to object to advancing the legislation.
Moreover, Senate Democrats said after huddling on floor strategy Wednesday, the majority party is prepared to keep the Senate in session until Christmas or beyond in order to complete work on the bill before New Year's.
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