Topic: Lamar Alexander

President Barack Obama argued Thursday that a sweeping overhaul of the nation's broken health care system is imperative for the nation's future economic vitality, clashing in an extraordinary live-on-TV summit with Republicans who want far more modest changes.With the marathon policy debate ...
Partisan sniping and ideological divides tore at a veneer of civility at Barack Obama's health summit Thursday, despite his plea for no "Obama gathered Republican foes and Democratic allies in a unique televised meeting billed as a bid to bridge divides in ...

Row simmers at US health reform summit

Partisan sniping and ideological divides tore at a veneer of civility at Barack Obama's health summit on Thursday, despite his plea for no "Obama gathered Republican foes and Democratic allies in a unique televised meeting billed as a bid to bridge divides ...