In Health Debate, Clinton Remains Vague on Penalties
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What might seem a mundane debate over health policy has taken on outsized importance because it is one of the few substantive differences between the two leading Democratic candidates.
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Vote effectively delays debate on whether to immunize telephone companies from lawsuits. But it's unclear whether the Senate will follow suit, and a veto threat is looming.
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The American Medical Association is concerned, but says more research is needed before a definitive statement can be made.
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A day before the first presidential debate, the government's health policy watchdog raised concerns that early mailings to seniors about the new Medicare prescription discount cards championed by President Bush were confusing or inadequate.
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Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, whose first attempt at a health care overhaul fell flat 13 years ago, unveiled a broad proposal on Monday to require health insurance for all Americans and make it more affordable.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa  - Some Democratic presidential contenders took aim at Hillary Clinton's leadership on health care on Thursday, questioning whether she could rally the political support to pass a broad plan for universal coverage.
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Cardiologists and nutritionists have very different opinions on whether former President Bill Clinton brought on his illness through cheeseburgers, cigars and too much work.
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Many 2008 Democratic presidential candidates, most recently Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, are embracing the notion of the so-called Ã¢ÂÂpay or playÃ¢ÂÂ insurance coverage mandate, which would require employers to provide health coverage to their employees or pay a tax into a national fund that would provide the coverage for them.
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Halfway through an otherwise cordial debate, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden raised an issue generally left unspoken by the other Democratic candidates: Bill Clinton's complicated legacy as president and how it might affect Hillary Clinton's chances of winning her own election to the White House.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama aired their policy differences over health care and Iraq in a debate that set a cordial tone while taking aim at President George W. Bush and the Republicans vying to succeed him.
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Recent national opinion polls rank health care as one of the key issues this presidential election, but it&#39;s a topic that&#39;s been on the mind of one expert in the field for years.
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It is unclear whether Gov. Bill Richardsonâs supporters will gravitate to Senator Barack Obama or Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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She was persona non grata in the early 1990s, when the then-first ladyâs dramatic health-care reform package went down. These days Hillary Clinton is winning raves among health-care-industry groupsâand attracting their campaign dollars.
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The U.S. President has said that the problem with health care is the lawyers. He doesn't seem to think that there are any other problems we should be concerned about, and the free market is the best way to determine how much you would be willing to pay for health care. The President is pushing our current system, and his challenger is doing the same.
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Fourteen years after the health-care policy debacle that she oversaw as first lady, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- deliberate and mindful of the political minefield she wandered into in that previous foray -- yesterday began an effort to reclaim the issue for her presidential campaign.
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The Christian Science Monitor - As some of this city&#39;s chattering classes had it, the Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire Wednesday night was supposed to be a Hillary Clinton takedown. Senator Clinton had pulled so far ahead in the polls, the theory went, that her rivals would have to go negative to start to narrow the gap.
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NASHUA, New Hampshire  - Democrat Hillary Clinton, her back against the wall in New Hampshire, battled to keep the state from swinging to rival Barack Obama on Sunday by accusing him of talking about change but failing to get results.