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David Lightman
Health care bill's supporters, opponents flock to Capitol
Gene Otto left his Olympia, Wash., bakery for a day, flew across the country to the nation's capital and told four members of Congress why it's important that they overhaul America's health care system. | 11/05/09 17:43:00 By - David Lightman
Election results chill moderate Democrats in Congress
Already-skittish moderate Democrats in Congress got fresh reasons Wednesday to worry about their votes on economic and health care legislation from the election results in Virginia and New Jersey. | 11/04/09 18:30:00 By - David Lightman
Abortion funding opens rift in House health bill
Would abortions be easier or harder to obtain under the health care overhaul legislation that the House of Representatives is likely to consider later this week? It depends on how one interprets the bill. | 11/03/09 17:37:00 By - David Lightman
House Republicans roll out health insurance alternatives
Small businesses would have an easier time banding together to offer insurance to employees. Consumers could cross state lines to buy coverage. There'd be no big government expansion. | 11/02/09 17:57:00 By - David Lightman
Health care: Some agreement, then there's the public option
Congress is poised to begin a historic debate on the future of the nation's health care system, but while most Democrats agree a new public plan is needed, its fate is far from certain. | 10/30/09 16:57:00 By - David Lightman
Blue Dogs aren't there yet on new House health bill
Democratic leaders Thursday invoked the spirit of generations of party heroes to rally their members of the House of Representatives behind a new health care plan -- but it's clear that winning a majority will be a tough fight. | 10/29/09 17:58:00 By - David Lightman
Pelosi unveils House version of health care bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled revised health care-overhaul legislation Thursday that includes a stronger government-operated insurance option than the one that the Senate plans to consider. | 10/28/09 18:19:00 By - David Lightman
Health care bills would limit out-of-pocket costs
Consumers would be spared having to pay huge medical bills under Democratic health care legislation that's moving through Congress, as lawmakers agree on the need to put limits on how much people would pay out of their own pockets. | 10/28/09 17:07:00 By - David Lightman
Moderate Democrats cool to government-run health plan
Moderate Democratic senators remained reluctant Tuesday -- and in one case, defiant -- about backing the government-run "public option" health care plan that party leaders are offering as a compromise, making it highly uncertain whether the plan can become law. | 10/27/09 18:00:00 By - David Lightman and Margaret Talev
Reid includes public option in latest health care bill
The Senate will consider whether the government should run and fund a health care plan to compete with private insurance, but states could choose not to participate in the system. | 10/26/09 16:03:00 By - David Lightman
Moderate Democrats hold health bill's fate in their hands
A handful of moderate Senate Democrats will determine the fate of this year's health care overhaul, and they're sending strong signals that while they're willing to compromise, they're wary of a strong public option. | 10/23/09 14:30:00 By - David Lightman
Medicare fee cuts will test doctors' patience with Congress
Doctors' Medicare fees would be cut 21 percent next year unless some change is approved, and quickly, but Senators sent a strong signal Wednesday that they're reluctant to spend billions on a long-term solution. | 10/21/09 17:54:00 By - David Lightman
House panel votes to get tougher on health insurers
Efforts to strip the health insurance industry of key antitrust protections got significant boosts Wednesday, when a House of Representatives committee voted to end the 64-year-old exemption and Senate Democratic leaders moved swiftly to act. | 10/21/09 14:03:00 By - David Lightman
House leaders urged to post legislation well before votes
As Congress prepares to consider historic changes to the nation's health care system, Democratic leaders are balking at supporting a change in the rules that would let the public see the bills' texts 72 hours before a vote. | 10/20/09 15:03:00 By - David Lightman
Health care bills would end gender differences, keep age discrepancies
The older you are, the more you usually pay for health coverage, and that's a difference likely to persist under the sweeping health care legislation that Congress is now considering. Yet the major House and Senate measures would end basing rates on gender, which is now allowed in most states. | 10/19/09 17:04:00 By - David Lightman
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