Edward M. Kennedy - Health Care Policy

Obama's health plan, less audacious than it might have been, still among history's bold actsRarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president's ...

Pelosi: Health care bill historic, honors nation's traditionsHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a sweeping overhaul of health care is a proposal that honors the nation's traditions.She spoke moments before a historic House vote.Pelosi has guided the legislation through the House and appeared ...

Obama is on the brink of a health care reinvention that none before him could achieveRarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a ...

Rarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president's pen. Such a moment now seems near.After a year of riotous argument, decades of ...

An election is being held in Massachusetts today to fill the Senate seat occupied for four decades by the late Edward Kennedy. But Democrats have lots of tricks they can play, such as requiring 51 senate votes, not 60, for reconciliation at ...

Obama jumps into Massachusetts fray to rescue Democratic Senate candidate, health care planHis health care plan in peril, President Barack Obama laid on a last-minute campaign trip to Massachusetts for Democrat Martha Coakley on Sunday with polls showing her struggling in an ...

Massachusetts lawmaker says if Republican wins Senate seat, health care overhaul is deadA senior Massachusetts lawmaker says if Republicans win a special Senate election there next week, President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is dead.Democrat Barney Frank told reporters Friday: "The Massachusetts ...

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. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and ...

Sen. Edward Kennedy has died of brain cancer.. As the WSJ obit notes, he died "with one of his lifelong goals, universal health care, tantalizingly within reach yet struggling on Capitol Hill. But his health-care agenda was broader than that, and in ...

Obama supports new long-term care benefit as part of health overhaulMoving to broaden the scope of the health care overhaul, President Barack Obama threw his support Tuesday behind creation of a program to help families struggling with burdensome costs of long-term care.The ...

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Topic: Edward M. Kennedy

Obama achieves health law success that eluded past

Pelosi: Health bill honors nation's traditions

Obama on the brink of a health care reinvention

Obama close to health law success that eluded past

A Faint Hope in Massachusetts

Health bill at stake, Obama to stump in Bay State

Lawmaker: If GOP wins seat, health care dead

Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle

Ted Kennedy’s Health Care Legacy

Obama supports new long-term care benefit

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