Topic: U.S. Democratic Party

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new congressional "super committee" will face tough choices on politically popular government health and retirement programs as it tries to draft a plan to reduce deficits by at least $1.2 trillion over a decade.The panel has until November ...

After flipping New York's 26th District in a special election two months ago, national Democrats were sure they would come up with a surefire formula to win back the House next year: Medicare.Democrats thought they won that heavily Republican district because they ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare, comparative research made physicians realize that inducing early childbirth in healthy women created unnecessary and costly risks for newborns.Artificially induced deliveries had become an accepted way to make childbirth fit busy personal schedules. The practice ...

The US Democrat Party was jubilant Wednesday after an upset victory in a congressional by-election seen as baring a potentially fatal weakness in Republican strategy ahead of 2012 national polls.The immediate battle in upstate New York's 26th Congressional District was to fill ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deficit-reduction negotiators have identified broad areas for saving hundreds of billions of dollars but still disagree on changing the costly but popular Medicare program, a source familiar with the talks said on Wednesday.Vice President Joe Biden and a bipartisan ...

The Democratic Party scored an upset victory late Tuesday in a tight Congressional by-election seen testing Republicans' strategy on politically sensitive budget cuts ahead of 2012 nationwide vote.The race in western New York's 26th Congressional District saw Democratic challenger Kathy Hochul taking ...

Are lawmakers in the cut-spending camp misreading public sentiment?Are lawmakers in the cut-spending camp misreading public sentiment?You’ve seen the headlines: "Budget Deal Avoids Government Shutdown."There’s just one little problem -- those headlines are wrong.For sure, the move by House Republicans to fold ...

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 ...

Every time I hear a politician talk about the health care system (with the exception of the select few who have real life experience in the system), the first thing that comes to my mind is President Obama's quote, " They knew ...

Every time I hear a politician talk about the health care system (with the exception of the select few who have real life experience in the system), the first thing that comes to my mind is President Obama's quote, " They knew ...