President Barack Obama is trying to persuade a weary public and wavering Democrats to get behind his frantic, late-stage push on health care, while Republicans dig in and demand starting from scratch after a year's worth of work.
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A top House Democrat said Sunday he believes Congress will pass a health care bill, but three fellow Democrats who opposed overhaul legislation last fall aren't committing themselves to backing President Barack Obama's late push.
Read more »Obama attacks insurers in health care gambit
US President Barack Obama on Monday launched a new political assault on price-hiking insurance companies, seeking to build support for his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.
Read more »Obama to push health care reform, honor women
President Barack Obama wades back into the health care debate as he travels to Philadelphia to discuss his overhaul plans.
Read more »Chinese experts stress need for basic health care
Improving basic medical services through better training of staff is crucial to fixing and restoring public trust in China's ailing health system, senior experts said Sunday.
Read more »Obama Calls For Fast 'Yes' On Health Care
In his weekly address, President Barack Obama Saturday made yet another push for health care overhaul and called on Congress for support. For the latest political calculations on health care legislation, host Scott Simon talks with NPR news analyst Juan Williams.
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Read more »Obama's Last Stand for Health Care Reform- Critics Say Obama's Pick for Deficit Panel Is Radical
Mar. 3: Health professionals applaud as President Obama speaks about health care reform at the White House.
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Read more »Obama turns up the heat for health care overhaul
President Barack Obama is trying to persuade a weary public and wavering Democrats to get behind his frantic, late-stage push on health care, while Republicans dig in and demand starting from scratch after a year's worth of work.
Read more »Obama turns up the heat for health care overhaul
President Barack Obama is trying to persuade a weary public and wavering Democrats to get behind his frantic, late-stage push on health care, while Republicans dig in and demand starting from scratch after a year's worth of work.
Read more »A furious health care push â but what about jobs?
President Barack Obama's furious, final push to get a health care bill passed threatens to shove aside the message he promised would top his list this year: creating jobs.
Read more »Obama likely to announce new health care strategy Wednesday
President Obama is likely to lay out a political road map Wednesday for passage of sweeping health care legislation, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday.
Read more »With compromise unlikely, Dems eye shortcut for health care
President Obama will make an announcement on "the way forward" on the health care bill next week, his spokesman said Friday.
Read more »Let's hope health summit wasn't a fraud
There was a lot to appreciate in yesterday's bipartisan White House health care summit between President Obama and members of Congress.
Read more »Obama launches high-stakes health care summit
President Barack Obama has opened the high-stakes health-care summit he hopes will break the political gridlock stalling a medical system overhaul.
Read more »Pelosi: Too late to start over on health overhaul
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it's too late to start over on President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.
Read more »Republicans on health care: Let's start over
Republicans are urging President Barack Obama to start over with a step by step approach to reducing health care costs.
Read more »Reid: OK to push health overhaul ahead without GOP
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid maintains Democrats have the right to push their health care plan through Congress without Republican support.
Read more »Outlook no brighter for Obama's new health plan
Starting over on health care, President Barack Obama knows his chances aren't looking much more promising. A year after he called for a far-reaching overhaul, Obama unveiled his most detailed plan yet on Monday. Realistically, he's just hoping to win a big enough slice to silence the talk of a failing presidency.
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