Posts Tagged ‘care’

March 12 2010

Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care

The trip was scheduled to coincide with his daughters' spring vacation from school, but now President Obama's family will not accompany him because of schedule change.\President Barack Obama has delayed his first international trip of the year, a three-country visit to Asia, to focus attention on the final push to salvage health care legislation after a year of contentious debate.






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March 11 2010

Pelosi: Democrats close to health care deal

Demonstrators display placards supporting President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul during a demonstration in Washington on March 9.Democrats claim momentum in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues.


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March 8 2010

Seniors pinched by rising costs for home care

As states struggle with budget issues, more seniors such as Angeline DiBeneditto, 89, who rely on state-funded services that help them live independently, may be pushed into more expensive nursing homes.As states struggle with red ink, more seniors face new fees or lengthy waiting lists for in-home services like meal deliveries, personal care assistants and visiting nurses.


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March 8 2010

Obama appeals for support on health care

President Obama made his appeal as Democratic leaders in Congress worked on a rescue plan for sweeping changes in health care that seemed earlier in the year to be on the brink of passage.President Barack Obama ratcheted up his attacks against insurance companies Monday in a last-ditch attempt to get a reluctant public and skittish Democrats behind his health overhaul legislation.


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March 8 2010

Obama takes health care push on the road

In a speech Monday in Philadelphia, President Barack Obama will try to persuade the public to back his plan to remake the nation’s health care system.

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March 7 2010

Obama’s health care pitch to Dems: Trust me

Republicans say President Barack Obama is marching his party toward political suicide in a year when he's not on the ballot.In private pitches to Democrats, President Barack Obama says he will persuade Congress to pass his health care overhaul even if it kills him.


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March 4 2010

Obama nudges House Dems on health care

March 4: President Obama signaled his blessing for using a tactic known as “reconciliation” to make the health care overhaul a done deal. Republicans see the tactic as a threat. NBC’s Savannah Guthrie reports. (Today Show)Support from his own party in doubt, President Barack Obama summoned more than a dozen House Democrats to the White House Thursday, pleading with them to put aside their qualms, seize a historic moment and vote for his massive health care overhaul.






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March 3 2010

Obama: Give health care an ‘up or down’ vote

President Barack Obama made his appeal as Democratic leaders in Congress surveyed their rank and file for the votes needed to pass legislation by majority vote.President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to vote “up or down” on sweeping health care legislation in the next few weeks, endorsing a plan that denies Senate Republicans the right to kill the bill by stalling with a filibuster.


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March 2 2010

2 dead in apparent murder-suicide at Va. day care

Police in suburban Washington, D.C., say a man and woman died in an apparent murder-suicide at a home used as a day care.

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March 1 2010

Up-or-down vote sought on health care

The White House calls for a “simple up-or-down” vote on health care legislation as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeals to Democrats to get behind it even it if threatens their political careers.

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