Private Health Care

by Christi Parsons As the going gets tougher for President Obama's plans to overhaul health care, the president this week is launching a renewed effort to build grassroots support for his plan, supplementing his tour of town hall meetings with......

by Mark Silva Has the past week been a rough patch for President Barack Obama, pushing health care reform and debating racial profiling? Yes. The president's job-approval rating reached a new low in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking -- in......

by Mark Silva Introducing: Soon to be, the newest member of the United States Senate. George LeMieux. But don't worry about remembering the spelling. He won't be there for long. The appointee of Republican Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida to......

by Mark Silva ` "Today we say goodbye to the youngest child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy,'' President Barack Obama said today at the public funeral for the last of the three Kennedy brothers who held or sought the presidency.......

by Mark Silva with contributions from Christi Parsons and Peter Nicholas, and updated at 1:45 pm EDT President Barack Obama, calling the "public option'' for those who cannot find health insurance privately only part of his proposals for a health-care.......

by Mark Silva and updated at 2 pm EDT In political circles, there is a term for the tactic that the Republican National Committee is deploying with a new run of national cable ads and TV ads airing in Florida:......

By James Oliphant A wave of bleak news about the stagnant economy promises to give opponents of President Obama's expansive domestic agenda more ammunition to argue that this is an inopportune time to enact overhauls of the nation's health-care and......

by Mark Silva Remember, it was Republican Sen. John McCain who put the trademark stamp on this political "town hall'' business - waging his first campaign for the GOP's presidential nomination in 2000 with a series of assemblies in the......

by Peter Nicholas and Mark Silva and updated again at 5:30 pm President Barack Obama, seeking to revive sagging public support for his health-care initiatives as lawmakers return from their summer recess, plans to deliver an address to a joint......

by Mark Silva As the Obama White House sets out to "reset'' its message about health care, and perhaps spell out what the president expects from the legislation he is demanding, public opinion is fairly divided over what's known about......

by Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook Amid fresh signs of intraparty tensions among Democrats over healthcare, Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D-Mont). today released what he said was an $856 billion bill to reshape the nation's healthcare system with........

by Kristina Sherry There's good and bad news when it comes to American obesity, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said today at an event to address the nation's increasingly costly and deadly weight problem. The inaugural conference...