US Senate candidates spar on health care
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WASHINGTON - Retired construction worker Earl Parish pays about $150 a month for pills that fight heartburn, cholesterol and blood pressure.
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In a conference call in January, the health-care debate within the Democratic Party played out before former senator John Edwards of North Carolina, who was in search of policy advice for his presidential campaign, and his wife, Elizabeth.
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President Bush and Congress prepared for a showdown over renewing and expanding a health insurance program that covers millions of children.
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President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, both have plans to lower rising health care costs and broaden health insurance coverage for Americans, but their visions would take health care in two different directions.
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Although a raucous debate over national security has dominated the presidential campaign, President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry differ even more sharply on how to provide better health care to more Americans.
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Though candidates suggest adapting the health care program that covers Congress and offering it to millions of unisured Americans, such a plan would unlikely cut costs.
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Politicians are pushing an idea to fight high health costs by shielding employers from the most expensive medical cases.
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On health care, President Bush says he stands with the doctors and Americans who are struggling to find affordable medical services. Democrat John Kerry says Bush has stood idle as medical bills have skyrocketed during his presidency.
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In their final U.S. Senate debate, Republican candidate Mel Martinez and his Democratic rival, Betty Castor, clashed over the war in Iraq and the minimum wage, underscoring the nature of a hotly contested campaign.
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Presidential hopefuls offered their views at Senate hearings.
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A group of 10 senators &#151; five Republicans and five Democrats &#151; told President Bush on Tuesday that they have agreed on a blueprint for increasing health insurance coverage, and they would like to work with him on it.
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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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Candidates in both parties are promising to work to cover more of the Americans without health insurance.
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The health care debate in this year&#39;s presidential contest has been largely boiled down to an argument over degree: Democrat John F. Kerry proposes an ambitious, costly expansion of health
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Two fierce rivals will stand together in Washington and agree on a series of goals for achieving universal health coverage, according to people briefed on the matter.
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A compromise between the Senate and House on a bill that would provide health insurance to uninsured children sets the stage for a battle with President Bush.
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As an early proponent of universal health care coverage, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Monday found himself struggling to differentiate his plan from one released last week by New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the partyÃ¢ÂÂs front-runner.