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Yesterday, I quoted an economist with the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee for eleven years who assisted with oversight of the Federal Reserve to show that there might be some basis for Ron Paul's questions to Ben Bernanke abo...

The latest American health-care reform plan is unveiled in the SenateWHEN Barack Obama outlined his vision for health reform to Congress on September 9th, he insisted that any bill must cut the uninsured by 30m, cost only $900 billion and raise the federal deficit not “one dime”. The leading congressional ...

There appears to be a simple two-pronged strategy for killing healthcare reform. One of those prongs involves, of course, delaying reform until it's too late....

With the dizzying twists and turns of these last several days on health care, we still don't know where things will lay once the dust...

Tomasky talk: How the US Senate finance committee and its chairman, Max Baucus, factor into healthcare reform

Before I begin with the serious stuff, I'd like to indulge in a little gratuitous media-bashing first. If that sort of thing isn't your cup...

WASHINGTON — House Democrats announced agreement Friday on far-reaching steps designed to rein in the relentless growth of Medicare, part of a concerted effort to counter the impression that President Barack Obama's health care legislati...

President says he is sanguine about missed deadline but fears about $1tn plan continue to dog himThe US Congress will not meet next month's deadline to pass sweeping healthcare reform as concerns about how to pay for the $1tn (£609m) plan continue to dog ...

by Lindsay Beyerstein, TMC MediaWire Blogger Healthcare is dominating domestic politics this week, as Congress and President Obama outline their visions for reform. The president...

The phone rang toward the end of Max Baucus' meeting Tuesday night: It was President Obama. Obama has been pushing for a health care bill before Congress takes off next month, and Sen. Baucus (D-Mont.) has taken heat from reform advocates whi...

Key negotiators in the Senate Finance Committee refused to set a date for their version of health care reform after their Tuesday meeting, but said they are edging closer to an agreement. "We're making significant headway," committee Chair Ma...

As liberal protesters marched outside, Sen. Max Baucus sat down inside a San Francisco mansion for a dinner of chicken cordon bleu and a discussion of landmark health-care legislation under consideration by his Senate Finance Committee. ...

"Democrats' government-run plan will make health care more costly than ever," Ohio Representative John Boehner, the House Republican leader, told the Wall Street Journal...

Much to the dismay of just about everyone who breathlessly follows politics, the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor turned out to be...

"Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends..." All week long, this line has been running through my head. It's from an Emerson,...