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Healthcare Reform

President Clinton urges Senate action on healthcare

By Janet Hook and Noam N. Levey

With Senate leaders navigating a tricky path to move healthcare legislation forward, Democrats on Tuesday received a blunt warning from...

Abortion battle moves to the Senate

For healthcare bill, Pelosi had to leave Left Coast behind

By Faye Fiore and Richard Simon

In the final hours before the House approved the most sweeping healthcare legislation in 40 years, Speaker Nancy Pelosi demonstrated that...

Healthcare bill's tough sell in the House signals tougher fight ahead

FROM THE BLOGS
Healthcare headlines from D.C. Now and Top of the Ticket

Republicans' new litmus test for 2010 candidates: only conservatives need apply - Top of the Ticket 11/24/2009, 8:40 a.m.
The challenge of being Blanche Lincoln in 2009-2010 - Top of the Ticket 11/23/2009, 3:24 p.m.
A Kennedy battles a bishop: church, state and abortion - Top of the Ticket 11/23/2009, 9:34 a.m.
Americans cite access over cost in healthcare poll - D.C. Now 11/23/2009, 8:10 a.m.
They'll debate healthcare -- and the 2010 elections - D.C. Now 11/22/2009, 9:13 a.m.

How healthcare reform affects consumers

Editorial series: Rehabilitating Healthcare

Health Care Town Hall Meetings

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1. Screaming kids and airplanes: Mayday! Mayday!

2. Understanding China

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The healthcare debate »

How will healthcare reform affect you? How will it affect the country? The discussion.

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Q & A on Healthcare Reform

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Reader questions on House healthcare bill	How would Obama's proposed spending 'trigger' work?
Who might, or might not, be covered under the healthcare bills	House vs. Senate: How healthcare proposals compare

Editorial: Healthcare's hurdles

The House passed a sweeping healthcare reform bill Saturday despite the opposition of as well as 39...

Healthcare reform bill wouldn't end higher premiums based on age

By James Oliphant

Under the healthcare proposals now before Congress, insurance companies would no longer be able to charge higher prices to policyholders who...

Historic healthcare overhaul passes House

By Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook

The House of Representatives on Saturday approved the most sweeping healthcare legislation since the creation of Medicare 44 years ago,...

One Republican votes for healthcare bill

By Steve Padilla

Anh "Joseph" Cao, a Vietnamese-born former ethics teacher and Catholic seminarian, last winter surprised and delighted Republicans by...

House votes for ban on abortion subsidies

By Kim Geiger

In a last-minute compromise seeking to secure a majority vote for a healthcare overhaul, House Democratic leaders agreed Saturday to...

Democrats secure abortion funding deal on eve of expected health vote

By Noam N. Levey and James Oliphant

With a historic floor vote looming on their healthcare bill, House Democratic leaders secured an 11th-hour compromise late Friday night to...

Seniors and doctors give key boost to healthcare bill

By Janet Hook and Noam N. Levey

With a historic House vote on a $1-trillion healthcare bill barely 48 hours away, battle lines are hardening as lobbying groups for...

House Republicans offer alternative healthcare proposal

By Janet Hook

After months of criticizing Democratic healthcare proposals from the sidelines, House Republicans this week stepped up efforts to promote...

Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments

By Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger

Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers...

Health insurance mandate alarms some

By David G. Savage

Among some libertarians and conservatives, the most troubling aspect of the pending healthcare reform bills is the prospect of a federal...

Opinion

GOP healthcare plan isn't about helping the uninsured Republican lawmakers issued their own healthcare reform plan the other day, and you'd have to look hard to find a more...	Switzerland's example of universal healthcare At least one country already has a healthcare plan roughly similar to the one President Obama and the Democrats have...
Two hot buttons Sponsors of the healthcare reform bills in Congress have tried hard to steer the legislation around the hot-button...	Healthcare has rationing in abundance Late last month, as the Senate Finance Committee labored to produce its version of a healthcare bill, the Republican...