At more than 1,000 pages, the healthcare bill is hard to boil down into a bumper sticker message

Senate Democrats may be on the brink of passing a sweeping healthcare reform bill, but attention is already starting to turn to the next battle: the negotiations between House and Senate leaders over the final shape of the legislation

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

Democratic lawmakers and officials express scepticism that President Obama's latest attempt to revive healthcare reform will have better chances of succeeding than earlier attempts

Max Baucus, the Democratic chairman of the Senate's powerful finance committee, vowed to push through a healthcare reform bill with or without Republican support as fraught efforts to overhaul the US medical system came to a critical juncture

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

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

Failure to pass a healthcare reform bill by the House of Representatives' Easter recess would risk a re-run of last year's 'town hall' rebellion against healthcare that almost sunk its prospects

With all the talk of healthcare reform in the United States, I read a sickening story of how a hospital is telling dying patients arriving as emergency patients that either they pay up front or they won't be treated. What a foul, warped society to produce such a system. Does the Hippocratic Oath mean nothing to these heartless doctors? Surely it is time for a more compassionate healthcare sys...