Topic: The White House

White House to release revamped Obama health plan

In a crucial week of high-wire politics, Barack Obama was expected to move Monday to transform his top priority health care plan from a political liability into a trump card to outwit Republicans.But ahead of the president's bipartisan health "summit" on Thursday, ...
Reid will back public health insurance option if Dems can get around GOP filibusters Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he will support allowing the government to sell insurance in competition with private industry if the White House and Democratic leaders push ...
Pharmaceutical group spent $6.8 million lobbying in third quarter on health rules and spendingThe pharmaceutical industry's main trade group spent $6.8 million in the third quarter lobbying Congress, the White House and numerous government agencies on health care provisions and other issues, ...
Obama adviser says health care legislation is major reform despite compromises by White HouseThe White House is defending President Barack Obama's stand in support of health care legislation amid concern from liberals that Obama is giving up too much to get a ...
White House confident Senate, House will compromise on competing versions of health care billsA top presidential adviser says the White House is confident Congress will pass a health care overhaul despite big differences in the House and Senate versions.Democrats in the Senate ...

Window closing for healthcare reform: Biden

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If the U.S. Congress fails to agree on a healthcare bill soon, the opportunity for a sweeping overhaul of the $2.5 trillion system will be lost for a generation, Vice President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday.Biden was speaking just ...
In a blow to the White House, the Senate's top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for passing health care legislation, leaving the measure's fate to the uncertainties of the 2010 election season.Majority Leader Harry Reid, ...
They 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 claiming for months they couldn't vote for a ...
Senate Democrats and White House seek separate bill to pay for doctor feesManeuvering to boost prospects for sweeping health care legislation, Senate Democrats hope first to win quick approval for a bill that grants doctors a $247 billion increase in Medicare fees ...
On the cusp of a key legislative push, President Barack Obama on Monday filled the Rose Garden with doctors supportive of his health care overhaul, saying " "Obama's White House event gave him another chance to frame the debate on his terms ...