Health Sector Puts Its Money on Democrats
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Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry.
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The national Democratic Party has spent millions on raising money, consultants and building state parties, entering the weeks before Election Day with only about one-fifth as much as the Republicans for races that could decide control of Congress.
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WASHINGTON -- Democrats seeking votes for their Iraq-withdrawal plan have stuffed a war funding bill with billions of dollars for homeland security, healthcare, farms, New Orleans levees, home heating, and other causes.
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In her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, she plans to stress healthcare and education.
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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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There are plenty of signs that Republicans are hunkering down against an aggressive and well-financed Democratic effort to reclaim the House majority it lost in 1994 Ã¢ÂÂ including the $12.5 million in Ã¢ÂÂindependent expendituresÃ¢ÂÂ that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) reported making in September.
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Democrats seeking votes for their Iraq-withdrawal plan have stuffed the bill it's in with billions of dollars for farms, flu preparedness, New Orleans levees, home heating and other causes.
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It sounded simple enough on the campaign trail: Free the government to negotiate lower drug prices and use the savings to plug a big gap in Medicare's new prescription-drug benefit. But as Democrats prepare to take control of Congress, they are struggling to keep that promise without wrecking a...
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supporters at an Orlando high school. &quot;They&#39;re working for drug companies. They&#39;re working for oil companies ... leading logistics contractor for the US military in Iraq, is a favourite whipping horse for Democrats.
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Tim Johnson's illness has threatened the Democrats' majority. But that may not be such a bad thing
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As House Democrats wrangle over details of a $100 billion war spending bill -- including whether restrictions should be placed on troops sent to Iraq -- some members want to add significant money for agricultural relief, Hurricane Katrina reconstruction and other nonmilitary projects.
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ATLANTA -- The American Cancer Society this week will take its biggest step ever into the politics of health care reform, spending $15 million in advertising on behalf of Americans with too little health insurance or none at all.
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The issue spurred a new line of attack from Democrats who say the shortage is indicative of leadership problems on health.
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Democrats began turning Wednesday to the fight that some in the party fear they wage most consistently: with one another. Democratic politicians and operatives said the
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Senate Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday battled over blame for a record increase in Medicare health premiums, which Democratic presidential candidate John
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By ANDREW TAYLOR  WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats pressed for budget increases for party priorities such as health, special education and medical research Tuesday as an appropriations panel approved a $152 billion spending bill.
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With health care the top domestic issue among voters as the nation heads into the 2008 elections, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease asked presidential candidates Tuesday to focus on ways to prevent, treat and manage chronic diseases that account for more than 75 cents of every dollar spent on health care.