Republicans poured cold water on President Barack Obama's plans for healthcare reform, criticising the cost of the proposed reforms and again accusing the president of trying to nationalise healthcare.

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...

The Chance Of Tort Reform Becoming A Reality We all heard the gratuitous line concerning tort reform issued by President Obama in his speech pushing for passage of his healthcare bill. While creation of the bill in its' current form has been extremely partisan in nature, the President made this statement as an apparent "overture" to the Republican Party. There is little doubt that frivolous l...

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

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

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

This is the text of the letter written by Sen. Kennedy in May to be sent to President Obama upon the Senator's death. President Obama quoted it in his healthcare reform address to Congress on Wednesday night: May 12, 2009 Dear Mr. President, I wanted to write a few final words to you to express my gratitude for your repeated personal kindnesses to me and one last time, to salute your leadersh...

In a new sign of the difficulties facing healthcare reform legislation, President Barack Obama delayed his trip to Asia by three days to try to push through his reforms

President Barack Obama addresses a full seating of the US Congress in a "make it or break it" effort to pass a healthcare reform bill.

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