Topic: Barack Obama

House joins Senate in approving deal in delay cut in Medicare pay for doctors for a yearThe House has passed and sent to President Barack Obama a bill to delay for a year an impending sharp cut in Medicare pay to doctors ...

Senate acts to stop Medicare doctors pay cut

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday agreed to avert a 25 percent pay cut for doctors treating patients covered by the Medicare health program for the elderly.On a voice vote, the Senate approved a one-year "fix" to the doctor's payment formula ...

Deficit a Wake-up Call for Washington

Will Washington have the courage to truly tackle the deficit?Will Washington have the courage to truly tackle the deficit?Bold action to tackle the deficit in the next couple of years doesn’t appear likely, despite pledges by veteran lawmakers in both parties, the ...

A Hose Divided

Today, we live in a society divided not by religious dogma, nor political affiliation, but by something far more fundamental to daily life. The great divide between the "Haves" and the "Have Nots" is fast becoming a chasm.. The Haves live in ...

Republicans critical as Medicare chief appears

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans decried the cost of Medicare and Medicaid and accused the Obama administration of blocking their oversight of the federally supported insurance programs for the elderly and the poor, at a hearing on Wednesday.It was Centers for Medicare ...
Will GOP use congressional probes for grandstanding, or to fix flaws in Obama's law?Republicans plan to use the investigative powers of Congress to go after President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, and they're focusing on questions uppermost in the minds of consumers: ...
It appears that democrats will do anything to get Socialized medicine enacted. And the law breaking of Nancy Pelosi , Harry Reid and Chairman Obama does not stop there. Chairman Obama claimed that he could find $500 billion in waste fraud and ...
Will electronic health records proposed by President Obama have an impact on the costs of health care? If electronic health records were used throughout the country, the health care system could be drastically reformed in a positive way reducing duplicate filing systems, ...
America's understanding of healthcare reform needs to move beyond news headlines and 30-second sound-bites toward a deeper understanding, and Wednesday night's ABC-TV presentation by the president - Prescription for America - did little to further that cause. One of the factoids posted ...
Is there a thing such as low-cost health care? Some may blame the rise in health care cost on greed, obesity, smokers, or simple confusion. President Obama has decided to throw a lot of resources behind the issues in health care. All ...