President Barack Obama took aim at the Republicans’ budget proposal for next year, saying their planned cuts to Medicaid and Medicare paint a “deeply pessimistic” view of the nation.

A federal judge in Florida has become the second to rule unconstitutional the health reform law passed last year by Congress and President Barack Obama.

President Barack Obama said he would consider congressional suggestions to “improve” the health reform law passed last year, which he said is preventing health insurers from “exploiting patients.”

Eric Cantor, U.S. House majorty leader, announced a delay in legislators’ vote seeking repeal health reform legislation in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Tuscon, Ariz., Jan. 8.

President Barack Obama said he has compromised with Republicans, serving up an extension on Bush-era tax cuts in return for more unemployment benefits and other economic recovery steps.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Americans should be prepared for two more years of verbal combat over health care reform when the new Congress is seated in January, but wholesale changes to the law are unlikely before the next election, experts say.

The U.S. Senate’s Democratic majority twice failed in its attempts Dec. 4 to extend Bush era tax cuts to people they described as middle-class Americans.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure calling for an extension of Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 a year.

Joel Ario, former insurance commissioner of Pennsylvania, has compared the federal health reform law that President Barack Obama signed in March to Republican Mitt Romney’s plan in Massachusetts.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, outgoing speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, says jobless people looking for an extension of their unemployment benefits will not see one when Republicans take over control of the House.