Topic: Barack Obama
Obama bypasses Senate to install held-up nominees for agency posts and embassyOnce again bypassing a gridlocked Senate, President Barack Obama acted Thursday to install three agency officials and a diplomat whose nominations had stalled amid election-year squabbling. In a statement released shortly ...
Medicare rebate checks in the mail; nervous Democrats try to overcome mistrust of health lawA check from Uncle Sam gets your attention, even if the money doesn't help that much with the bills. More than 750,000 Medicare recipients with high prescription costs ...
Medicare rebate checks in the mail; nervous Democrats try to overcome mistrust of health lawA check from Uncle Sam gets your attention, even if the money doesn't help that much with the bills. More than 750,000 Medicare recipients with high prescription costs ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama reached out on Saturday to retired Americans, an important group of voters, touting a report that showed healthcare reform had brightened prospects for the Medicare hospital trust fund. Medicare is the government-administered program that funds healthcare ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed health expert Donald Berwick on Wednesday to run the Medicare and Medicaid programs that provide care to seniors and the poor, bypassing the Senate to fill a key job over Republican objections. Obama had nominated ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, frustrated by Republican obstruction of key administration staffing appointments, will use his power to appoint his pick to run Medicare and Medicaid while the U.S. Congress is in recess, the White House said on Tuesday. Obama ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats launched a new push on Thursday to promote U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, as the first $250 rebates were mailed to seniors to help plug gaps in Medicare prescription drug coverage. Democrats released a 60-second television ad ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Concern over rising U.S. debt could force lawmakers to take another crack at reining in healthcare costs long before any promised savings from President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul are realized. The new healthcare law, signed by Obama in March, ...
An association charged with shaping a key insurance regulation as part of health care reform is telling the Obama administration it needs some more time. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners says it will provide final recommendations on the rules behind minimum ...
Doctors on edge as Congress again goes to the brink to hold off Medicare fee cutsFor the third time this year, Congress is scrambling to stave off a hefty pay cut to doctors treating Medicare patients — even as the Obama administration ...
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The End of the Combat Mission ...
President Obama announces the end of the combat mission in ...2010-09-01 -
The Choice This November
Voter have choice this November -- between Democrats who are moving ...2010-09-02 -
President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu ...
President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel make ...2010-09-01
