Obama will Add More $$$TRILLIONS$$$::Tonight: 7:50PM PDT June 6, 2009 - These are the articles on top of tomorrow's news from Obama…. (Google adds "?" marks evidently.....)
Obama team plans more active role on health care
The Associated Press - ?1 hour ago?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House, backing away from President Barack Obama's "it's-all-on-the-table" approach initially advocated, prepared to get louder and more involved in the details of a health care overhaul that officials once were content to ...
Paying for Universal Health Coverage
New York Times - ?3 hours ago?
For Congress and the administration to keep the promise of comprehensive health care reform, they will have to find the political will to pay for universal coverage and other investments that are needed right away but will not produce quick savings. ...
Obama Urges Effort on Health Care
New York Times - ?16 hours ago?
By HELENE COOPER WASHINGTON — President Obama, signaling the start of his health care push, called on Congress and his government to tackle “the root causes of skyrocketing health care costs.” The latest on President Obama, the new administration and ...
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"If we do nothing, everyone's health care will be put in jeopardy," said the president, in his prerecorded Saturday radio and Internet address, aired while he attended D-Day ceremonies in France. "Fixing what's wrong with our health care system is no longer a luxury we hope to achieve — it's a necessity we cannot postpone any longer."
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Obama: 'Time to deliver' on health care
The Associated Press - ?9 hours ago?
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said "it's time to deliver" on his health care agenda, using his weekly radio and Internet address to focus on his domestic priority even while traveling overseas. His remarks airing Saturday were timed to ...
Obama Says Current US Health-Care System Is 'Unsustainable'
Bloomberg - ?16 hours ago?
By Hans Nichols June 6 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama, preparing to dive into the health-care debate when he returns from France tomorrow, called the existing system “unsustainable,” and warned that everyone's coverage is imperiled by rising ...
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Blogs
Health Care: Public Option Is A Must
Seeing the Forest - ?6 hours ago?
I just want to go on the record here that any health care reform must include a "public option." This is an option for insurance that comes from the government, not from for-profit companies. Without it there really is no "reform. ...
MoveOn and the public option: lipstick on a sow
Daily Kos - ?6 hours ago?
by Pen I just got an email from MoveOn. Some of you may have gotten it as well. I'll just cut to the main thrust of this email: Since taking office, President Obama hasn't said much about a key plank of health care reform: the public health insurance ...
The Saturday Word: Healthy Debate
New York Times Blogs - ?16 hours ago?
By Sarah Wheaton President Obama spent the week in the Middle East and Europe, but he looked ahead to the brewing debate in Congress over health care overhaul in his weekly address. Mr. Obama said he was glad to see debate among different stakeholders. ...
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District of Columbia, USA
Obama Says Congress Must Act to Fix 'Broken' Health-Care System
Washington Post - ?16 hours ago?
By Michael A. Fletcher Stepping up his push to enact legislation to reform the nation's health-care system, President Obama today declared, "The status quo is broken," and he warned that the current system could eventually collapse if nothing is done ...
Health-Care Reform Around the Web
Washington Post - ?22 hours ago?
By John Amick - The New York Times reports widespread dissatisfaction from Republicans regarding news that President Obama is advocating a government-sponsored aspect to a new health-care package currently under deliberation in the Senate. Sen. ...
Using Value to Curb Health Costs
Washington Post - ?22 hours ago?
By Alain Enthoven and Denis Cortese President Obama has noted that it would be impossible to balance the federal budget without constraining our health-care expenditures. Federal government health-care outlays and tax breaks of more than $1 trillion in ...
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Washington, DC, USA
VIDEO: Calling for health care overhaul
Politico - ?15 hours ago?
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 6/6/09 6:55 AM EDT President Barack Obama called on Congress Saturday to overhaul the health care system, saying the failure to act could mean “everyone's health care will be put in jeopardy.” “Within a decade, we'll spend one ...
Obama's Gamble: Making Health Care Components Mesh
CQPolitics.com - ?12 hours ago?
By John Reichard, CQ Staff For many veterans of past health care battles, the arrival of a long, hot summer of debate brings back memories of 1993, the last time Congress considered a really big overhaul of the system. But in some important ways, ...
Obama says time is right for healthcare reform
The Hill - ?14 hours ago?
By Eric Zimmermann Congress has a historic opportunity to reform and expand healthcare with every major stakeholder at the table, President Obama said today. Lawmakers must act now, the President urged, before healthcare costs spiral out of control. ...
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