First lady Michelle Obama sits in an upholstered armchair in her East Wing office, a generous bowl of fresh apples on a nearby table. She wears a body-conscious gray sleeveless sheath with an artful corsage of matching fabric decorating the right shoulder. A petite Georgetown student -- one of the...
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Exchanges at the health care summit
Posted by SSVegito 194 days ago (http://feeds.boston.com)
Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee: “Mr. President, renounce this idea of going back to the Congress and jamming through on a bipartisan - I mean on a partisan - vote through a little-used process we call reconciliation. You can say that this process has been used before, and that would be right. But it’s never been used ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Giving no ground, President Barack Obama and Republican leaders fought forcefully for their competing visions of historic health care reform Thursday in an exhausting, often-testy live-on-TV debate. Far from any accord, Obama signaled the Democrats were prepared to push ahead for an all-or-nothing congressional vote.
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Health tip: Exercise alone
Posted by Superfluous 194 days ago (http://www.chicagotribune.com)
People are more likely to work out harder when they're flying solo, according to a study in a journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.
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Obama Stresses Areas of Agreement at Health Session
Posted by rougedude 194 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
At his much-anticipated health care forum on Thursday, President Obama used his opening remarks to make the case that reforming the health care system is critical to the nation’s economy.
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GOP to Obama on health: Our idea is better
Posted by SuperAdam 195 days ago (http://feeds.chron.com)
President Barack Obama has opened the high-stakes health-care summit he hopes will break the political gridlock stalling an overhaul.
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Reid pushes to extend jobless, health benefits
Posted by Killer34 195 days ago (http://feeds.boston.com)
WASHINGTON - Senate majority leader Harry Reid is pressing to extend unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless through December as he and Republicans try to clear leftover Senate business.
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No high hopes at health care summit
Posted by wolfthestar 196 days ago (http://feeds.chron.com)
Lawmakers from both parties suggested the Obama-hosted meeting Thursday will amount to little more than political theater.
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Obama plan would curb health insurers on rate hikes
Posted by HalfDrag 197 days ago (http://www.latimes.com)
The proposal would give the Health and Human Services secretary power to block premium increases deemed excessive. President Obama's new healthcare overhaul plan would give the federal government greater authority to stop rate increases imposed by health insurers, an administration official said late Sunday.
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Consumers who buy individual health policies feel trapped
Posted by wolfthestar 200 days ago (http://www.latimes.com)
They have few options other than dropping coverage as insurers raise rates and slash benefits. Insurers blame the soaring cost of medical care and the churn of customers in the individual market. Health insurers across the country are dramatically increasing rates and slashing benefits for many of the estimated
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Health premium increases excessive, administration says
Posted by SSVegito 201 days ago (http://feeds.boston.com)
WASHINGTON - Consumers are facing budget-busting increases in medical insurance premiums, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said yesterday, releasing a report the Obama administration hopes will tap public outrage and help revive its stalled health care overhaul.
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Republican Holds Out Hope on Health Care
Posted by JMaster00 202 days ago (http://www.foxnews.com)
Sen. Judd Gregg is reaching out to the White House with a plan to overhaul health care that has some key features in common with the Democratic bills passed by the House and Senate.
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Failure of Health Care Overhaul Will Add More Woes
Posted by safiroks 206 days ago (http://www.foxnews.com)
It's anybody's guess whether Obama's health remake will survive in Congress, but there's no doubting the consequences if lawmakers fail to address the problems of costs, coverage and quality.
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Health Reform in Limbo, Top Drug Lobbyist Quits
Posted by Lilacs2oo 208 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Billy Tauzin, the industry’s top lobbyist, thought it was a smart move to bet on health care reform early — only to watch it come to a screeching halt.
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Obama signals flexibility in health care clash
Posted by JMaster00 210 days ago (http://feeds.chron.com)
He said he's willing to sign a bill even if it doesn't deliver everything he pursued through a year of grinding effort at risk of going down as a failure.
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Obama invites Republicans to summit on health care
Posted by Cinderall 212 days ago (http://www.washingtonpost.com)
President Obama moved to jump-start the stalled health-care debate Sunday, inviting Republicans in Congress to participate in a bipartisan, half-day televised summit on the subject this month.
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Health care overhaul bill may fail, Obama admits
Posted by Musashi16 212 days ago (http://feeds.boston.com)
No, maybe he can’t. President Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation’s health care system, now concedes that the effort might die in Congress.
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Pentagon to stock health facilities with morning-after pill
Posted by Chadledee 214 days ago (http://www.washingtonpost.com)
The Department of Defense will begin making the morning-after pill Plan B available at all of its hospitals and health clinics around the world, officials announced Thursday.
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Winter soup in sickness and in health
Posted by Achilles 219 days ago (http://feeds.sfgate.com)
We are in the deepest part of winter when it is too cold and everyone is either at the no-appetite stage of being sick or at the ravenous-appetite stage of getting over being sick. The remedy for both is soup and more soup, using all of the hearty seasonal...
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Shelf after shelf of strangely named bottles fill an entire aisle at Whole Foods Market. There are "CoQ10" softgels, "charcoal" pills and mysterious "hoodia" tablets. But why would anyone take charcoal? What exactly is a CoQ10? And can you eat a hoodia?
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Obama Defends Proposed Health Office
Posted by Dareling 409 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
President Obama pressed ahead to build support for his health care plan, while a new report said a proposed agency to cut health costs may not give substantial savings.
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