Washington (AP) – Senate Democrats have defeated a GOP attempt to eliminate $40 billion in cuts to home health care services in the health overhaul bill.
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[...]Washington (AP) – Two moderate senators who could be crucial to passage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul pushed for greater cost containment measures in the landmark legislation.
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[...]Washington (AP) – Casting its first votes on revamping the nation’s health care system, the Senate rejected a Republican bid Thursday to stave off Medicare cuts and approved safeguards for coverage of mammograms and other preventive tests for women.
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A leading state health-care reformer decided Tuesday not to decide yet whether to run for governor.
Juan Figueroa, a prime mover as chief of the Universal Health Care Foundation behind the passage of a health reform law called SustiNet, originally set a Dec. 1 [...] The Green Party is hosting a panel discussion Wednesday at Wesleyan University on solving the health care crisis through a single-payer system.
The forum will focus on the weaknesses in the bill that was passed along party lines by the U.S. House of Representatives, known as HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care For [...]
Those opposing health care are always telling us we have the best health care in the world, but, aside from your occasional Shah, how many people exile themselves from their native land to get the benefits of that system?
Just another example of the Daily Show being more incisive than what [...]
This seems rather odd coming from a republican these days, advocating on behalf of any government run health care program. Just last week Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) called Medicaid an abhorrent "medical ghetto."
SMITH: One of the aspects of the economy that is taking a very serious toll [...]
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press Writer
Washington (AP) – With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on President Barack Obama’s signature domestic issue, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the health care reform legislation to advance is coming apart.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Organizers say the national debate on health care reform will be a central theme at this year’s World AIDS Day event in Hartford.
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[...]Per CT News Junkie, State Health Care Advocate Kevin Lembo is running for … Lt. Governor?
“Sometimes the governor leaves office and no one has really vetted the lieutenant governor, who is suddenly charge of $18 billion budget,” Lembo said. “Twice in recent history, Connecticut’s lieutenant governor has been asked [...]
Hartford (WTNH) – Chief Capitol Correspondent Mark Davis sat down with Senator Joe Lieberman, Monday, to talk about health care.
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[...]In a sharply-worded email, state Democrats are taking Republican Senate candidate Rob Simmons to task for failing to back a health-care plan supported by more than half of the state's residents.
Simmons, who is running for the Senate seat held by Democrat Chris Dodd, one of the architects of the health-care' [...]
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman is a key player on health care reform and could potentially be the 60th senator.
That number is particularly important because it takes 60 votes to cut off a filibuster that could derail health care reform.
On NBC's Meet The Press on Sunday morning, Lieberman discussed the issue [...]
Bringing her campaign to the morning bacchanalia outside the Yale-Harvard Game, U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon declared her trust in President Obama on Afghanistan -- but not on health care reform.
McMahon, one of five Republicans running to unseat Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd [...] Sen. Chris Dodd said the nation is "one step closer to responsible reform" following tonight's vote in the Senate to allow full debate on a planned overhaul of the nation's health-care system.
"We will have a full and open debate on this important issue,'' Dodd said in a statement. "But [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
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After the vote, Senator Dodd released the following statement:
Tonight's vote takes us one [...]
