Share Washington – Scam artists are taking advantage of the new health insurance law to peddle phony policies. Health and Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday she is warning state officials about a proliferation of scams involving phonyhealth insurance policies. Federal investigators are also on the lookout. Sphere: Related Content
Share Chicago — Congress voted to overhaul the health care system on a Sunday. On Monday, Patti Lawson e-mailed her employer’s human resources office to ask how soon she could get her 22-year-old daughter back on her health insurance. Sphere: Related Content
Share Portland, Maine – President Barack Obama used an April Fools’ Day appearance in Maine on Thursday to poke fun at reporters and pundits for being too impatient in their coverage of the effects of the health care reform bill. Sphere: Related Content
Share Mount Dora, FL. — A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obamato seek care “elsewhere.” Sphere: Related Content
Share New York — The U.S. economy gained more jobs in March than any other month in the last three years, according to a government report released Friday. The Labor Department said the economy gained 162,000 jobs in the month, compared to a revised reading of a 14,000 job loss in February. That makes March [...]
Share New York — The insurance industry’s attempt to weasel out of one of the few provisions of the new health care reform law that took effect immediately is a harbinger of what’s to come. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – President Obama claimed final victory on his top domestic priority Tuesday by signing into law a package of changes to the newly enacted health care reform bill. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington — Republicans were for President Barack Obama’s requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it. Sphere: Related Content
Share New York — New York Police Department field tests have ruled a white powder sent with a threatening letter to the Queens office of Congressman Anthony Weiner is not hazardous. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – Capping an epic struggle, congressional Democrats put the final touches Thursday to historic legislation enshrining health care as the right of every citizen. Republicans vowed to campaign for repeal in the fall election season, drawing a quick retort from President Barack Obama: “I welcome that fight.” Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington — Senate Republicans succeeded early Thursday morning in finding two flaws in the House-passed health care reconciliation package. Neither is of any substance, but the Senate parliamentarian informed Democratic leaders that both are in violation of the Byrd Rule. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington — One of the president’s closest advisers said on Tuesday that Republican opponents of health care reform let down their guard following Sen. Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts, in the process allowing Democrats and the administration to make a final, successful push for the bill. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington — In 2001, running hard to be House Democratic whip, Nancy Pelosi had a blunt message for her caucus: If she won, she was going to lead from the front — and if colleagues didn’t want that style of leadership, they shouldn’t vote for her. Sphere: Related Content
Share New York — The sweeping health-care bill passed by the House of Representatives Sunday, and now headed for President Obama’s desk, promises a sea change in the way that small business owners purchase and provide health insurance for themselves and their employees. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – President Obama will sign a landmark $875 billion health care reform bill into law at the White House on Tuesday, according to two Democratic officials familiar with the planning. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – A pair of House Democratic leaders predicted Sunday the final tally on President Barack Obama’s historic health care bill will meet or exceed the 216 votes required for passage. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – Saturday afternoon has seen two major developments in the health care reform push: President Obama made his final pitch for his prized piece of legislation on Capitol Hill, and Democratic leaders decided to abandon a plan to avoid a direct vote on the Senate bill. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington — President Barack Obama again postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia, this time putting it off until June so that he can be in Washington as Democrats in Congress try to pass a health care reform bill, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced Thursday. Sphere: Related Content
