Health Care Reform

Could Mammograms, Pap Smears Kill Reform?

New Controversy Could Figure Big as Health Care Bill Reaches Senate By COURTNEY HUTCHISON ABC News Medical Unit Lawmakers pushing for health care reform are facing charges that a government-funded panel's recommendations to...

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Senate Dems win key vote to advance health bill

NBC’s Mike Viquiera. Invoking the name of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing...

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GOP Points to Cancer Recs, Calls It 'Rationing'

Senate Bill Could Be Stalled Over Cancer Screening Confusion Health care reform gets its first real test in the Senate today. After a rare Saturday session, the Senate will vote tonight on whether to push the reform bill to the...

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Fireworks? (So Far) Sedate Senate Health Debate Underway

The 10-hour debate has begun on Capitol Hill … so far, very few fireworks. ABC's Vic Ratner is tracking: The debate is underway in the Senate on health care reform legislation, with the key vote at 8pm. The Democrats need a...

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Dems say they have votes to open health care debate

Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln was the 60th vote needed to bring the health care reform bill to the floor. Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln: "I believe it is important to begin this debate" After hours of debate, 60 votes are...

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Republican governors: 'Opt out' unworkable - Washington Times

Boston Globe Republican governors: 'Opt out' unworkable Washington Times AUSTIN, Texas | Even with the "opt-out" option, Republican governors who gathered here last week weren't buying in to President Obama's plan to overhaul...

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Dems have 60 for health care; Lincoln a 'yes'

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., accompanied by, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., left, and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speak during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 20,...

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Tea Party Against Reid Health Care Bill

By Alan Gray, NewsBlaze Tea Party Patriots say they are going to the Capitol today, to stop what they call "Harry Reid's Health Care Bill." Senator Harry Reid introduced the Senate version of the "health care reform" bill....

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U.S. Chamber poll: 55 percent in La. oppose health care reform proposal

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a public opinion poll showing that 55 percent of Louisianans oppose the health care reform plan currently being discussed in Congress while only 36 percent support it.

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Cardin Says Health Bill Will Help Small Businesses; Read Bill Here

With a test vote on health care reform scheduled for tonight, Republicans are using their weekly radio and Internet address to criticize the bill. Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo says the measure will "drive up the cost of health care...

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