President Barack Obama received an unexpected boost in his effort to overhaul the healthcare system when 59,000 Catholic nuns came out in support of his bill.
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Barack Obama pledged to "fulfil the promise of healthcare in our time" as he launched a fresh push to overhaul the US health system
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President Barack Obama welcomed proposals by the US healthcare industry to reduce costs by $2,000bn over the next 10 years, as efforts to overhaul the health system gather pace in Washington
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President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that the US House of Representatives is working to approve a comprehensive overhaul of the US healthcare system by the end of July.
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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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Barack Obama missed a golden opportunity to overhaul the US healthcare system, says Phil Bredesen, the Democratic governor of Tennessee. Instead, the US president simply loaded the existing system with new costs that will escalate over tim
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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
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At more than 1,000 pages, the healthcare bill is hard to boil down into a bumper sticker message
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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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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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