Posts Tagged ‘care’

March 20 2010

A Sunday health care viewer’s guide

Reps. Chellie Pingree, D-Me., Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., Chair Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., Doris Matusi, D-Calif. and James McGovern, D-Mass., at a meeting of the Democratic members of the House Rules committee who met to discuss the health care legislation prior to the full committee meeting on Capitol Hill on Saturday. Although Democrats believe that they’re close to their own net-cutting ceremony – namely, the signing of a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health insurance system — the precise moment of victory will be a lot less clear than the final moments of a tournament game.


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March 20 2010

Ugly build-up to House health care vote

Tea party demonstrators protest against health overhaul legislation outside of the House chamber on Capitol Hill on Saturday.House Democrats heard it all Saturday as they neared a decision on health overhaul — including raucous protest chants laced with racial epithets aimed at black members of Congress.






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March 20 2010

Obama making final health care pitch

President Barack Obama speaks about health care reform at the Patriot Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Friday.President Barack Obama hunts for a few precious votes from House Democrats for health care overhaul. One influential congressman says party leaders are unlikely to cut a deal with abortion opponents.


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March 19 2010

9 major changes in the new health care bill

March 19: Democratic leaders are demanding crucial “yes” vote commitments in the House after the estimated $940 billion cost of health care overhaul was announced. NBC’s Savannah Guthrie reports. (Today Show)In their attempt to pass a sweeping health care overhaul this weekend, House Democrats are pushing a package of legislative fixes to lure undecided or opposed members of their party to the “yes” category.






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March 19 2010

Obama: Health care debate about ‘character’

President Barack Obama waves as he is introduced before he delivers remarks on health insurance reform during his event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., on Friday.President Barack Obama delivered a closing argument for the goal to which he has devoted much of his presidency, urging lawmakers on Friday to pass a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system in a long-awaited vote this weekend.


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March 18 2010

Pressure builds on health care fence-sitters

March 17: The health care debate reaches a fever pitch with a political fight over the vote itself. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports.  (Nightly News)The few dozen House Democrats who say they still have not decided how they will vote on legislation designed to remake the nation’s health care system face extreme pressure.






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March 18 2010

Obama, interviewer get testy on health care

President Barack Obama takes to the Fox News Channel to sell his health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with interruptions from the host and chiding from the guest.



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March 18 2010

Idaho first to sign law against health care reform

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter addresses the media during a news conference on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 inside his office at the Idaho statehouse in Boise, Idaho. On Wednesday Otter signed a piece of legislation that will require the state of Idaho to sue the federal government upon passage of health care reform which comes as Democrats in Congress hope to pass healthcare reform this weekend. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield)Idaho is leading the charge in a states-rights push to defeat a proposal in Congress that would require people to buy health insurance, a key piece of reforms being pushed by President Barack Obama.


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March 18 2010

Prehistoric dads helped with child care

An exhibit shows the life of a Neanderthal family in a cave in the new Neanderthal Museum in Krapina, Croatia. Research shows that hands-on dads would have aided in carrying children, as well as their bathing, feeding and playing. The males among our earliest human ancestors may have helped jumpstart the modern human population explosion by helping females with child rearing.






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March 17 2010

Woman Obama championed can get health care

President Barack Obama is introduced by Connie Anderson, sister of cancer patient Natoma Canfield, who wrote the president saying she gave up her health insurance after it rose, at the Walter F. Ehrnfelt Recreation and Senior Center in Strongsville, Ohio.A woman championed as the Obama administration’s emblem for health care reform does not have to choose between her home and her health, Ohio health officials say.


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