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Advocates for Single-Payer Fight to be Heard in U.S. Healthcare Debate Interview with Geri Jenkins, a registered nurse and co-president of the California Nurses Association, conducted by Scott Harris As the U.S. Congress moves forward with debate over the shape of healthcare reform, a top agenda item of President Obama and more than 47 million ...

WASHINGTON Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for 's top priorities to pass without Republican support.

The United States spends $1.65 trillion a year in health care costs. That is sixteen percent of our gross domestic product.

Asbury, Ia. - A plan to pay for health care reform by taxing high-end benefits depends on President Obama's support, Iowa Sen.

Main Category: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Also Included In: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP ; Seniors / Aging ; Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 02 Jul 2009 - 4:00 PDT The drug industry began ramping up its lobbying efforts in 2003, when Medicare Part D began, and now is targeting Democrats.

A A A' One of the principal authors of health care legislation taking shape in the House accused drug companies and other medical providers Wednesday of stealing, and said they are now offering concessions in the hopes the bill that emerges will not demand too much of them.

Senator Max Baucus, the chairman of the Finance Committee, at a news conference after health care meetings on Wednesday.

Total to Current Members of Congress since 1989 : $32,801,100, 51 percent to Democrats Total Lobbying Expenditures since 1998 : $49,728,500 The nursing home care industry is focusing the bulk of its attention--and likely money--on thwarting a rule supported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and originally proposed by the Bush ...

The head of the Montana Democratic Party, also a candidate for Congress, is coming out in favor universal health coverage.

This week, Senator Max Baucus told the New York Times that the Senate Democrats gave too much away in going into the health care reform process.

So determined are President Barack Barack Obama and liberals in Congress to pass a massive health care bill that they may well have forgotten to ask themselves whether the ends justify their means.

Mental Health Testing for Combat Veterans Steve Fetveit According to a RAND study completed last year, 20 percent of U.S. veterans are returning to civilian life with effects of depression and post traumatic stress disorder.

As Sen. Max Baucus has taken the lead on health-reform legislation in the U.S. Senate, he's also become a leader in something else: Campaign money received from health- and insurance-industry interests.

Hailed by President Barack Obama, a multi-billion-dollar promise by drug companies to narrow a Medicare drug coverage gap for seniors is valid only if Congress succeeds in passing a comprehensive health care bill encountering strong opposition from Republicans, an industry spokesman said Monday.

Dems to tax health benefits ... unless you join a union Don't ask, for the moment, why congressional Democrats need to find an extra $1 trillion to pay for a socialized medicine scheme they insist will "reduce costs." We're way too far into Wonderland to worry about that.

We don't know the answer yet. Baucus was instrumental in helping George Bush pass tax cuts for the rich and privatize Medicare, but he's also said he wants to shepherd Barack Obama's healthcare plan through Congress and make universal coverage a reality once and for all.

President Obama meets with Senate Democrats to discuss health care, June 2, 2009, in the State Dinning Room at the White House in Washington.

The White House formally announced the drug manufacturers' plan to lower Medicare drug prices Monday.

Here is the latest Montana news from The Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. The Forest Service says it has done a lot more forest thinning to protect rural homes from wildfire than indicated by a recent study.

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 26 Jun 2009 - 4:00 PDT Some Senators "struggled" Wednesday with the possibility that the health reform overhaul could derail America's tradition of employer insurance plans, The New York Times reports.