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Two More Ohio Democrats Now Backing Health Care
By Tom Diemer
Maybe President Barack Obama should take his campaign for health reform to Ohio more often. Four days after his latest visit to the state, two more Ohio Democrats announced Friday that they would support the health care bill nearing a critical vote in the U.S. House on Sunday. Reps. John Boccieri ...
Rank-and-File Dems' Support for Health Reform Grows Stronger as Vote Nears
By Bruce Drake
As the health care reform battle nears its climax, the gap between the number of those who "strongly" oppose the measure has narrowed as rank-and-file Democrats appear to be rallying around the proposal, according to a Kaiser Health Tracking Poll conducted March 10-15. Overall, a plurality supports ...
Democrats' Momentum Building for Sunday Health Vote
By Patricia Murphy
After months of debate, delays and intraparty disarray, Democrats in Washington seemed to gain crucial momentum toward passing a health care reform bill by week's end. But legislative booby traps and fickle election-year politics mean that significant hurdles await the bill in the Senate, even if it ...
Don't Give the Roberts Court the Chance to Kill Health Reform
By Walter Shapiro
Searching for health care votes with the desperation of...well...a family without medical insurance trying to pay a hospital bill, Nancy Pelosi must find the temptation nearly irresistible. With skittish House Democrats reluctant to ratify the heavy-handed compromises in the Senate health care ...
Abortion Language in Health Bill Pits Catholic Against Catholic
By David Gibson
Democratic leaders and faith-based supporters of health care reform on Thursday stepped up their campaign to convince the public -- and perhaps a few pro-life House members whose votes are critical to passage -- that the legislation does not fund abortions and in fact would reduce abortions. "I ...
It's the Priests vs. the Nuns -- Again
By Melinda Henneberger
On the issue of health care reform, it's the priests vs. the nuns, with a coalition of the Catholic sisters who lead 60 different religious orders backing the proposed law, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposing it. Both camps are strongly anti-abortion, mind you, yet read the reform ...
Special Provision for North Dakota Bank Removed From Health Bill
By Patricia MurphyFacing a barrage of questions, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) Thursday sought the removal of a special provision he had written into the package of fixes to the Senate health care bill that would have applied only to the Bank of North Dakota. The provision would have allowed the Bank of North Dakota to ...
'Repeal It' Group Vows to Undo Health Reform If It Becomes Law
By Tom Diemer
Rarely have politicians signed up to undo a law before it takes effect, or has even passed. But dozens of Republican members of Congress and candidates have done just that with health care reform, agreeing to a "Repeal It" pledge authored by the conservative Club for Growth. The repeal movement is ...
The Woodhouse Civil War Over Health: Brothers Trade Barbs in High-Stakes Showdown
By Jill Lawrence
The Woodhouse brothers aren't sounding very brotherly in the tense make-or-break phase of health care reform and, perhaps, Barack Obama's presidency. Phrases like "anti-American" and "political hack" are the least of the insults flying back and forth between Brad, the communications director of the ...
Massachusetts Study: Health Care Reform Reduced Abortions
By David Gibson
A study published in the latest New England Journal of Medicine shows that abortion rates declined during the first two years that Massachusetts implemented a near-universal health coverage program much like the nationwide plan currently before Congress. The research, which was released Wednesday, ...
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