Barack Obama will this weekend put his formidable "grassroots" election campaign machine into action to pressure Congress to move ahead with healthcare reform – his overriding legislative priority

Barack Obama's epic struggle to push healthcare reform through a reluctant US Congress looked to be on the verge of success in a milestone that eluded his Democratic predecessors and that would restore momentum to his struggling presidency

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

Barack Obama gave what sounded like a possible teaser on Monday of the do-or-die address he will give to the joint houses of Congress on healthcare reform

Barack Obama, US president, continued to push his plans for healthcare reform calling the current system 'unsustainable' and arguing that an overhaul was the most important thing for the health of America's economy

The US Congress approved a package of final changes to President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare overhaul on Thursday, and Mr Obama dared Republicans to try to repeal the new law

President Barack Obama called for Congress to "buck up" and pass healthcare reform as proposals advanced in the past two days were met with Republican attacks and a lukewarm response from moderate Democrats

Barrack Obama has just given a speech on healthcare to the US congress. His two pillars of healthcare reform, as they are being called, are insuring the uninsured and lowering healthcare costs. Here are some of the policies he laid out: Banning insurance companies from denying coverage on the basis of you having a pre-existing condition Banning insurance companies from dropping or watering down yo...

Barack Obama said the time for "bickering" and "games" was over as he laid out his plan to deliver healthcare reform in remarks prepared for delivery in a prime-time address to both houses of Congress

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