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President Obama making calls to members of Congress

Obama and America's hundred-year struggle over healthcare reform.

Healthcare provided by Medicaid

The insurance program is facing its toughest challenges just as the health reform law is poised to expand eligibility for millions of Americans.

All FDA-approved contraceptives should be fully covered under the healthcare reform law, a panel finds. Advocates see a win for women's health—and a political win for the Affordable Care Act.

A doctor and her patient

To a former health insurance executive, ALEC's fight against “Obamacare” looks familiar—and straight out of the corporate playbook.

In the Sixth Circuit, it was a George W. Bush–appointed disciple of Justice Scalia who cast the decisive vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate.

Rose Ann DeMoro discusses the Mainstreet Contract for America, a new activist movement inspired by nurses but extending to everyone.

Healthcare protest

The lesson Democrats should take from the backlash to Paul Ryan's Medicare plan? Voters do want government running their healthcare system.

Paul Ryan

Too bad for GOP strategists dreamed of surfing an austerity agenda to victory in 2012: voters despise Ryan’s plan to privatize Medicare.

Paul Ryan says his plan to overhaul Medicare empowers Americans and guarantees coverage options. What it really does is gives the private insurance industry a green light to prey on seniors.

How much taxpayer money could government agencies save if they cracked down on scams like healthcare fraud? The answer, suggests a Harvard professor: hundreds of billions of dollars every year.

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 After early struggles and White House hurdles, Obama's grassroots arm says it helped swing tangible votes for health care reform.

March 22, 2010

Congress begins to forge FDR's "essential link in our national defenses against individual and social insecurity.”

March 21, 2010

Stupak endorses bill as raucous debate moves forward and vote approaches.

March 21, 2010

When it comes to women's health, key congressman turns for advice to men.

March 20, 2010

New poll says health-care legislation is now backed by 46 percent, opposed by 42 percent.

March 19, 2010

"Congress, and its Catholics, should say yes to health care reform," argues key Catholic paper, as representatives of 59,000 nuns back reform.

March 18, 2010

"If my vote is to be counted, let it now count for passage of the bill, hopefully in the direction of comprehensive health care reform."

March 17, 2010

The Florida congressman who "gets it" proposes the next step on the road to real reform.

March 17, 2010

 A remarkable new survey asks Americans to explain their health care position in their own words, and the visuals are revealing.

March 15, 2010

Why do Republicans keep telling Democrats not to back reform? Could it be because they've read the polls that showing doing so will help Democrats?

March 15, 2010
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