Senate’s fix to health care law slowed by snag (AP)

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 7:32 am  
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., at podium, gestures during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. From left are, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Reid. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP – After nine straight hours of beating back Republican amendments, Senate Democrats hit a temporary snag Thursday in their drive to rush through a package of fixes to the big health care law signed by President Barack Obama.


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How Dems can win with health care (Politico)

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 6:33 am  
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Politico – In an Ideas piece, Coelho outlines a plan for Dems to use health bill to their advantage in November.

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Dems deal with threats over health care support (AP)

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 1:49 am  
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This picture provided on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by the Monroe County Democratic Committee in Rochester, N.Y. shows damage to their office after a glass door was struck with a brick with a note reading 'Exremism in Defense of Liberty Is no Vice' sometime from late Saturday, March 20, 2010 or Sunday, March 21, 2010. Bricks have been hurled through Democrats' windows, a propane line was cut at the home of a congressman's brother and lawmakers who voted for a federal health care bill have received phone threats in the days before and after passage of the sweeping legislation. (AP Photo/Monroe County Democratic Committee)AP – Democratic Congress members are getting lessons from the FBI on how to handle threats such as several directed at their colleagues, including bricks hurled through windows and menacing obscenity-laced phone messages left for those who supported sweeping federal health care legislation.


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Retired couples may need $250k for health care (AP)

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 11:48 pm  
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AP – Relief to seniors facing high prescription drug costs is one of the first changes to come under the new health care overhaul. But ultimately that won’t offset the relentless increase in retirees’ medical expenses.

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Political recriminations linger over health care (AP)

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 6:33 am  
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** FILE ** In this March 15, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama is introduced by Connie Anderson, sister of cancer patient Natoma Canfield, who wrote the president saying she gave up her health insurance, prior to his speaking about health care reform in Strongsville, Ohio. Perhaps nothing crystallized Obama's determination to press forward on health care legislation more than the 10 letters he reads each day from ordinary Americans. He carried them around. He recited their stories. He used them as rallying cries. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP – Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin is accusing Republicans of engaging in a “political exercise” by slowing progress on a bill designed to complete congressional passage of the health system overhaul.


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