The US House of Representatives will vote on a healthcare bill that incorporates a significant tax increase for the wealthy, senior Democrats said, as Barack Obama, president, tries to steer his most cherished reform into law
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President Barack Obama, energised by the House passage of the US healthcare bill, was awaiting Senate procedural moves before signing the historic reform into law
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President Barack Obama's efforts to overhaul the US's healthcare system received a major fillip on Thursday when two influential organisations endorsed a reform bill that will be put to the vote in the House of Representatives on Saturday
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Democratic US Representative Dennis Kucinich, saying he may be the 'deciding vote', announced he will back the Senate-passed healthcare bill that President Barack Obama hopes to sign into law
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As US senators prepare to vote on the healthcare reform bill, an unlikely casualty of one of Barack Obama's keystone policies has now emerged: tanning salons
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Barack Obama travels to Iowa to bolster support for the divisive new healthcare reform law
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The White House said it was considering drawing up its own healthcare reform bill, following widespread criticism of Barack Obama's strategy of outsourcing the increasingly anarchic drafting process to Congress
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It looks almost certain now that Barack Obama will get a healthcare bill to sign. The House appears set to vote in favour tonight and then the Democrats will only need 51 votes in the Senate to send it to the president’s desk. There are a couple of things that jump out at me about the process. First, Obama has expended huge amounts of political capital on the bill. A president who came to of...
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Advocates of healthcare reform drew fresh hope from a new Democratic bill on Capitol Hill at the end of a week in which Barack Obama's plans suffered heavy dilution because of growing concern over rising budget deficits
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Much like in 1994, when Bill Kristol, the conservative journalist and activist persuaded congressional Republicans to oppose healthcare reform in order to undermine the Clinton administration, many Republicans believe Barack Obama's White House would be disabled if healthcare reform were to fail
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FT on 16th Sep 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Barack Obama has wagered an enormous amount of his political capital and prestige on his latest attempt to socialize America, his so-called healthcare reform. It's too soon to tell, but the Prevaricator-in-Chief may have finally overreached himself. As Americans find out more about what the bill actually entails more and more of them want absolutely no part of it. Scott Rasmussen puts the num...
