After months of touting a public alternative to private health insurance, the White House may be taking a step back on the issue given the reaction from those on Capitol …  Read →

As the final House vote on a health care reform bill will likely be delayed until the fall, the Senate is pondering its own legislation that may omit key Democratic …  Read →

As members of the U.S. House and Senate continue to debate various aspects of health care reform, President Barack Obama is reiterating his belief in a public insurance plan to …  Read →

Surrounded by millions of uninsured residents and those struggling to keep up with rising costs, New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer is pushing a public health insurance option to compete …  Read →

Members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee said their proposal to reform the nation’s health care can cost under $1 trillion and is “fully paid for,” stumbling blocks facing other …  Read →

Refusing to define it as a make-or-break part of his health reform efforts, President Barack Obama called a possible government-run insurance program “an important tool to discipline insurance companies.”

Barack …  Read →

Indicating private insurers operate with “little oversight of their coverage and payment decisions,” one congressman is urging the creation of a government-run, national health insurance exchange.

John "Jay" Rockefeller

Sen. John …  Read →

If the Affordable Health Choices Act, proposed by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) and Senate Democrats last week, were enacted in its current form, it would cost $1 trillion over the …  Read →

Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the president doesn’t want health care reform to kill off the private health insurance system, but rather buoy it with more competition.

Kathleen Sebelius

“The president …  Read →

President Barack Obama told a national doctor’s association that health care reform will not mean that patients lose access to the doctors and health plans they like.

Barack Obama

In a …  Read →