At 7 a.m. Thursday, the Senate plans to push landmark health-care legislation over the finish line with the last in a string of midnight and daybreak votes capping months of infighting and procedural delays. And with that, the hardest work of all will begin: reckoning with long-standing differences………click here to continue reading
The health care reform bill on track to pass the Senate on Thursday would do more than any proposal yet to reduce the deficit over time - by an estimated $132 billion over 10 years and by substantially more thereafter…….click here to continue reading
Two down and one to go. The health care bill has passed another 60-vote test in the Senate…….click here to continue reading
Democratic senators warned that a retooled, $871 billion health care bill speeding toward Senate approval in a Christmas Eve vote must remain fundamentally unchanged if it is to become law…….click here to continue reading
At the start of a Senate Finance Committee hearing on health care financing several nurses stood to protest their exclusion from the witness table as……click here to continue reading