Read more universal health care stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3849/universal-health-care.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:37:28 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73554/house-passes-landmark-health-care-reform.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation tonight to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. The measure passed 220-215 with only one Republican—Louisiana's Joseph Cao—in favor and 39 Democrats opposed. "Oh, what a night," said...http://www.newser.com/story/73554/house-passes-landmark-health-care-reform.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 07 Nov 2009 22:24:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/67231/obama-to-recast-health-reform-as-moral-issue.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama is about to start focusing more on the moral aspects of health care reform, stressing the need to provide secure coverage to all Americans, the Wall Street Journal reports. The shift may reflect the concerns of some supporters that Obama has spent too much time talking about the...http://www.newser.com/story/67231/obama-to-recast-health-reform-as-moral-issue.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 7:41:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67078/obamacare-isnt-socialist-hellhole-its-switzerland.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagInvestor's Business Daily made a howler when it said the British physicist Stephen Hawking "wouldn't have a chance" under the UK's health care, but for Paul Krugman, the "vile and stupid" editorial missed the point. Obamacare doesn't look like the British system, in which government runs hospitals and pays doctors....http://www.newser.com/story/67078/obamacare-isnt-socialist-hellhole-its-switzerland.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 17 Aug 2009 7:34:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66635/health-care-opponents-arent-all-crazy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere are definitely crazy black helicopter watchers amongst the screaming masses of health care foes, but most of the people filling town halls are “confused and concerned Americans,” writes Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post . “And they have a point.” Robinson’s a self-proclaimed “true believer” in reform—we have a...http://www.newser.com/story/66635/health-care-opponents-arent-all-crazy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 11 Aug 2009 12:12:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64388/dems-propose-54-tax-on-top-earners-for-health-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAnd they're off: House Democrats unveiled their bill to reform the US health care system today, the Hill reports. The bill includes a government-run insurance option to cover more than 30 million uninsured Americans and would impose new taxes on the wealthy to pay for it all, notes Politico. The...http://www.newser.com/story/64388/dems-propose-54-tax-on-top-earners-for-health-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 14 Jul 2009 17:30:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62493/if-health-care-push-fails-blame-dems.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNow ought to be a good time to reform health care. With costs up and coverage down, polls show the public overwhelmingly favors change. Unfortunately, “a handful of Democratic senators are still determined to party like it’s 1993,” writes Paul Krugman of the New York Times . These so-called “centrists” want...http://www.newser.com/story/62493/if-health-care-push-fails-blame-dems.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 22 Jun 2009 10:48:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61790/obama-seeks-another-313b-in-health-cuts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn an effort to pay for his ambitious health care plans, Barack Obama today proposed another $313 billion in cuts to government health care spending over the next decade, the Wall Street Journal reports. That brings the total cuts proposed to nearly $950 billion, just shy of the $1 trillion...http://www.newser.com/story/61790/obama-seeks-another-313b-in-health-cuts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 13 Jun 2009 9:19:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61127/kennedy-floats-health-bill-to-make-employers-pay.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEmployers would be required to offer health care to employees or pay a penalty, and all Americans would be guaranteed health insurance, under a draft bill being circulated today by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's health committee. The bill would provide subsidies to help poor people afford care, and give patients...http://www.newser.com/story/61127/kennedy-floats-health-bill-to-make-employers-pay.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 05 Jun 2009 19:05:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58139/obama-attacks-tax-havens-to-save-health-care-reich.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOffshore tax havens may not be fair, but they’ve been around for decades. So why is President Obama taking them on now, Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich asks in Salon. It’s not to try to keep jobs here, as the White House claims; the move might even drive jobs away....http://www.newser.com/story/58139/obama-attacks-tax-havens-to-save-health-care-reich.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 05 May 2009 16:05:02 CDT