Topic: The Associated Press

Toss it or fix it? Americans may just give health care overhaul law a chance to workToss it or fix it?Anxious backers of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law are starting to see a flicker of hope.While polls show Americans remain ...
AP Source: No tax hit to employers or parents for covering children in their 20s immediatelyThe Obama administration is removing a roadblock for employers hesitating about immediately extending health care benefits to employees' kids in their twenties.A senior administration official told The ...
AP-GfK Poll: Surprising jump in opposition to Obama's health care law after he signs itOpposition to President Barack Obama's health care law jumped after he signed it — a warning to Democrats running for re-election this fall that his victory could become ...

AT&T, Verizon ‘Hopeful’ Health Bill Has Net Benefits

A congressional hearing scheduled for next week to air corporations' concerns about the costs they'll incur from the health-care overhaul has been scrapped.. Henry Waxman, head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, canceled next Wednesday's hearing at the behest of companies ...

Health Highlights: Dec. 11 2009

Serious gaps exist in the U.S. government's ability to trace food through the supply chain to ensure its safety, says a report by the inspector general's office of the Department of Health and Human Services.. A survey of food manufacturers required to ...
Liberals folding, ready to accept House health care compromiseThey may not like it, but many House liberals look ready to accept a compromise health care bill, putting Democratic leaders well on the way to delivering on President Barack Obama's call for overhaul.After ...
Moving the country's health information into the digital age is something that President Obama campaigned on, and it's something we've heard about at frequent intervals since he took office. The Associated Press reported Thursday that the government is spending at least a ...

Senate confirms Margaret Hamburg to lead FDA

In a voice vote, the Senate confirmed Margaret Hamburg, a bioterrorism expert, as the 21st commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. "Her expertise and judgment will serve FDA well," Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary, said after the Senate confirmed ...

Health Highlights: May 15, 2009

President Barack Obama on Friday named New York City health commissioner Dr. Thomas R. Frieden to head the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are considering broad health-care changes that include aid to families ...

Health Highlights: May 14, 2009

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are considering broad health-care changes that include aid to families earning up to $88,000 to help pay for insurance, a requirement that all must carry coverage, and for employers to offer coverage to full-time workers ...
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