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House Health Care Bill May Put Rural Hospitals Out of Business
Hospitals in rural areas across America may face further financial woes if the health care bill in the House of Representatives should become law because the 1,900-plus-page plan stipulates below-market payment rates and a new government-run insurance company that would compete with the nation's already cash-strapped rural hospitals.
November 2009 News Archives GOP Rally With Protesters Against House Health Bill Democrat health care bill contains the word "shall" 3,400 times Muslim 1st, American 2nd! Army Major went to high school in Northern Virginia ticked off that he was being deployed to war zone...killed his own soldiers...not only is there no mission or strategy for ...
House Moves To Block Doctors' Medicare Pay Cuts
Main Category: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP Also Included In: Primary Care / General Practice Article Date: 23 Nov 2009 The House voted largely along party lines Thursday to permanently end annual cuts in doctors' Medicare payments, which the Congress has temporarily averted from year to year, the Associated Press reports.
Silent Angel Memorial set for Bay District firehouse
A St. Mary's holiday tradition born eight years ago out of tragedy and in memory of the victims of violent deaths will continue this month in Lexington Park.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said at a press briefing on Tuesday that there was "bipartisan support" for Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute four prominent terrorists, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in civilian court in New York City.
Romney Leads In PAC Fundraising
Romney's political action committee, , is leading all other politician PACs in receipts this year with more than $3 million.
Hoyer Pushes For Permanent Estate Tax Fix as Fellow Democrats Eye Stopgap
U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer pushed fellow Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee to adopt a new, permanent estate tax instead of a one-year measure to keep the current levy from expiring next year.
House OKs $210 billion to help out doctors
The Democrat-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff.
Jobless benefits could end for many in January
More than 1 million people will run out of unemployment benefits in January unless Congress quickly extends federal emergency aid, a nonprofit group said Wednesday.
Capitol Briefing: House shifts focus to jobs
By Lori Montgomery Now that they've finished their health-care bill, House leaders are turning their attention to the soaring unemployment rate.
Pelosi: Job help must be 'right'
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that she hopes to move on a jobs bill next month but cautioned against rushing in before Democrats have found the 'right initiative' to deal with whata s proved to be a very stubborn, deep recession for workers.
Congressional leaders seeking a new jobs bill
Stung by constituents' concerns about their vanishing or vulnerable jobs, congressional leaders launched a strong push Tuesday to pass a "jobs creation" package by the end of this year.
Baltimore County poised to ban minors from tanning TOWSON a ' Baltimore County could become the latest Maryland jurisdiction to prohibit the use of tanning facilities by minors.
Pelosi’s Cynical Politics: Cutting the Voters Out of the...
Did you get the sense that the House Democratic Leadership was frantic, even desperate, to nail down the vote for the 1,990-page healthcare reform bill? No, not the actual votes from members Democrats were worried might go south on them-though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer had good reason to be concerned about ...
Democrats lobbying for needed last votes
Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, offering fresh concessions to abortion opponents and working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts.
House Starts Debate on Health Bill
Close NOVEMBER 7, 2009, 5:32 P.M. ET WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama made a final appeal to House Democrats to vote for a health-care bill, saying "Now is the time to finish the job." View Full Image Getty Images Obama met with members of the House leadership, including from left, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, Rep.
Sweeping health care plan passes House late Saturday
Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement.
Hoosiers have known for weeks that Indiana's Republican Congressional delegation won't vote for health-care reform, but they're still waiting to hear what the Democrats will do.
Capitol Hill Abuzz Before House Vote
Opponents of the House health-care bill and Democrat leaders are competing for about a dozen moderate Democrat votes as lobbyists are descending on Capitol Hill in a last-minute rush to sway Saturdaya s vote.
One-party health care reform won't get far
UPDATE: The House passed the health care reform bill Saturday night. By the time this editorial appears in print, the U.S. House may have voted on a massive, game-changing health care reform bill backed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. And if Pelosi's vote-counting confidence is well-founded, the bill may have been narrowly approved in a ...
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