thehill.com - 5/11/2009
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Comprehensive healthcare reform will be accomplished this year, President Obama declared Monday, saying, “I will not rest until the dream of healthcare reform is achieved in the United States of America.” Obama addressed reporters in the White House after meeting with representatives of ...
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Obama will not rest until healthcare reformed
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... manufacturers and healthcare workers, who jointly vowed to cut national healthcare spending by $2 trillion over the next 10 years. They're here because they recognize one clear, indisputable fact: When it comes to healthcare spending, we are on an unsustainable course that threatens the financial stability of families, businesses and government itself, Obama said. This is a historic day, a watershed event in the long and elusive quest for healthcare reform, he said. Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-will-not-rest...
Senators offer options to cover the uninsured
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... Don't know whether they're trying to piggyback on President Obama's big announcement on healthcare or whether they're trying to hide it, but the Senate Finance Committee issued ...
Obama stresses prevention, wellness to corporations
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... Johnson & Johnson for programs they've used to, for example, get workers to cut smoking, lose weight and exercise. "If we can do that in individual companies, there's no reason why we can't do that for a country as a whole," Obama said. "All this designed to save taxpayers money, save businesses money and ultimately make the American people healthier and happier and make sure that we're getting a better bang for our healthcare dollar." On Monday, Obama made a big splash by meeting with corporate, union and trade association executives to discuss their pledge to ...
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Obama: Healthcare reform now or never
swamppolitics.com 5/29/2009 — by Mark Silva
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Missing in Action on Healthcare?
thenation.com 5/11/2009 — TRUDY LIEBERMAN Looks like the insurance industry now holds the upper hand in the Obama administration's healthcare reform efforts.
Obama to push healthcare, energy reform
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reuters.com 6/23/2009 — Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will throw his weight behind legislative bids to reform healthcare and cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions on Tuesday in his fourth White House press conference since taking office. Obama, who has ...
Healthcare and Me (And You)
motherjones.com 5/28/2009 — Over at the Washington Monthly , Jonathan Gruber writes that universal healthcare would create more fluid job markets and spur entrepreneurship: The main reason for this is a phenomenon known as "job lock," a term coined during the last round of ...
The Politics of Healthcare
motherjones.com 7/1/2009 — Jonathan Cohn takes a look at the many compromises Barack Obama is making in order to get a healthcare reform bill passed: Put aside, for a moment, the policy merits of these moves. The politics are lousy. Obama would be in danger of producing ...
Obama: Healthcare reform no 'luxury'
swamppolitics.com 5/11/2009 — by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, planning a meeting at the White House on Monday with "stakeholders'' in the health care debate, also plans a midday public address on "reforming the health care system to reduce costs.''
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Real Healthcare Savings
corner.nationalreview.com 5/12/2009 — Yuval - What you fail to appreciate is that HHS is studying the Logan's Run Model (LRM) of healthcare reform. Under this approach, expensive healthcare recipients are swung around the ceiling and blown up during a facsimile of a Pink Floyd laser light ...
Obama sets up formal office for healthcare reform
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reuters.com 4/9/2009 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama set up an executive office for healthcare reform at the White House on Wednesday, saying the overhaul was one of the biggest priorities for the first year of his presidency. Obama issued an executive order ...
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CNN Political Ticker 5/11/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) – White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Obama is "saddened" by Monday's news that an American soldier shot and killed five of his fellow troops at Camp Liberty in Baghdad.
"The President's heart goes out to the ...