Principled Opposition: Focus on Current Healthcare Legislation

The nation's health care tab will go up -- not down -- as a result of President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul. That's the co...

The Obama administration will try to persuade a federal judge Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit by 20 states that claim the president's he...

President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising hea...

The Obama administration on Thursday told health insurers that it will track those who enact "unjustified" rate increases linked ...

When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But...

The Obama administration has officially approved the first instance of taxpayer funded abortions under the new national ...

Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when ...

The joint lawsuit led by Florida and now grouping 18 states was filed on March 23 by mostly Republican attorney generals. It claims the sw...

Individuals who don’t purchase health insurance may lose their tax refunds according to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. After acknowledging t...

Governor Bob McDonnell (R) signed Virginia’s opposition to the Democratically led federal health care reform bill Wednesday afternoon. The...

See the timeline of major provisions in Democrats' health-care package

"Let me remind you this [Americans allegedly dying because of lack of universal health care] has been going on for years. We are bringi...

Sebelius: Obamacare Strategy Is to Reduce Company Profits | The FOX Nation Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Seb...

Sen. Max Baucus (D): "Too often, much of late, the last couple three years the mal-distribution of income in America is gone up way to...

HAVANA -- It perhaps was not the endorsement President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress were looking for. Cuban revolutionary le...

After a harrowing day that saw a bloc of pro-life Democrats agree to compromise on abortion language, House Democrats cemented a victory for...

House Minority Leader John Boehner warning against defying the American public. "Can you go home and tell your senior citizens that the...

Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a meas...

March 18 (Bloomberg) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be creating new grounds for a court challenge to the proposed U.S. health-care overh...

Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print. Premium...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer declined to say Wednesday if Democrats have enough votes to pass historic health care legislation, but hin...

House phone lines were frozen Tuesday afternoon following a barrage of calls on the health care reform debate, with congressional opponents ...

If every sitting House Democrat who voted for the health care bill in November, voted for it again this weekend, Nancy Pelosi would have the...

Nearly one-third of all practicing physicians may leave the medical profession if President Obama signs current versions of health-care refo...

Are there enough votes in the House to pass the Senate's health-care bill? As of today, it's clear there aren't. House Democrati...

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) says the House ethics committee is investigating him for inappropriate comments he made to a male staffer on New Ye...

President Barack Obama ratcheted up his attacks against insurance companies Monday in a last-ditch attempt to get a reluctant public and ski...

House Democratic leaders are pushing to finish far-reaching health legislation and hold a climactic vote in the next three weeks, aiming to...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that Republicans running in this fall's midterms will campaign on repealin...

President Obama's endorsement Wednesday of a risky legislative maneuver to complete health-care legislation sent Democratic leaders scr...

Rep. Bart Stupak doesn’t plan to vote for Congress’s latest health overhaul package – and abortion isn’t the only reason why. The Michigan ...

The Senate appears to be gearing up to use a rare budgetary maneuver to push through a Democratic-supported health care overhaul, but even t...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues to back a major overhaul of U.S. health care even if it threatens their political careers, a...

President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing ...

" T his is my heart, it's my health, it's my choice." With these words, Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams defended his ...

President Barack Obama said Saturday the health care meeting he's holding next week with Democratic and Republican lawmakers will test ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he will support allowing the government to sell insurance in competition with private industry if the...

President Obama is working on health care legislation intended to reconcile differences between House and Senate Democrats that could be att...

The legislation the White House will post on its website is expected to reflect common ground negotiated over the past several weeks by Hou...

Sixty-one percent (61%) of U.S. voters say Congress should drop health care reform and focus on more immediate ways to improve the economy a...

President Obama signaled Sunday he is not ready to let the issue of health care reform go away, planning a meeting at the White House with b...

President Barack Obama has left Democrats as confused as ever over how the White House plans to deliver a health care reform bill this year,...

No, maybe he can't. President Barack Obama , who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's hea...

President Barack Obama exhorted Democrats to "finish the job" on a health care overhaul Wednesday, but his comments failed to bri...

Despite polls showing adamant voter opposition to Democratic health-care legislation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she's de...

Democrats retreated Tuesday from a quick push to pass President Barack Obama 's health care overhaul, lacking a workable strategy to sal...

President Barack Obama suggested he's open to Congress passing a scaled-back health-care bill, potentially sacrificing much of his signa...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she lacks the votes to quickly move the Senate's sweeping health overhaul bill...

"To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect ...

Republican Scott Brown’s upset win in Massachusetts threatened to derail hopes of passing a health reform bill this year, as the White House...

Lawmakers in 30 states are pressing for constitutional amendments to exempt individuals from the requirement to purchase health care, a pivo...

"Let's remove all doubt, we will have health care -- one way or another," Pelosi told reporters in San Francisco. But how? ...

Health care reform is "hanging on by a thread," and one or two votes could determine the outcome of the heavily-debated bill, Demo...

President Obama's approval rating on handling health care is at an all-time low, according to a new CBS News poll, something that is hel...

MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of health care reform, is taking heat for failing to disclose consisten...

Passage of the health-care bill will be, for the administration, a catastrophic victory. If it is voted through in time for the State of the...

President Obama wants the final negotiations on health care reform - a reconciliation of the House and Senate versions of the bill - put on...

President Barack Obama signaled to House Democratic leaders Wednesday that they'll have to drop their opposition to taxing high-end heal...

In a phone call Thursday, Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., urged South Carolina Republican Attorney General Henry McMaster, the head of a group of 1...

If the government can mandate the purchase of insurance, it can do anything. By ORRIN G. HATCH, J. KENNETH BLACKWELL AND KENNETH A. KLU...

Coloradans will likely be asked in November to blunt the impact of federal health-insurance reform with a state constitutional amendment tha...

The good news for Senator Ben Nelson is that he doesn't have to face Nebraska voters until 2012. If Governor Dave He...

Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska's political deal from the federal health care r...

Two House Democrats who favor a government insurance plan, a central element of health care legislation passed in their chamber, acknowledge...

Health Care Reform Overhaul Approved in 60 to 39 Vote; Bill Must Now Be Reconciled With House Version Senate Democrats passed a landmark hea...

Senators will be home for Christmas after they agreed late Tuesday to change the schedule to allow an 8 a.m. ET vote Thursday on health insu...

Organizations and lawmakers opposed to the health care reform package are getting their legal briefs in a bunch, threatening to challenge th...

A bill so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas eve. And tidings of comfort and joy from Harry Reid too....

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today took shots at those who are not supporting the health care legislation. During a floor speech, he ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has set the stage for a major vote Monday morning at 1:00 AM – one that would require the support o...

The Congressional Budget Office said Sunday that the Senate health care bill would not reduce long-term federal deficits as much as previous...

Do not mess with this bill. That was the message Senate Democrats sent to their colleagues on the House side over the weekend, warning the...

Responding to reports of a new “compromise” proposal on abortion in the U.S. Senate’s health care reform bill, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo today...

An aide to Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) coordinated opposition to the Senate health bill’s abortion compromise this morning with the Republica...

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) conceded Republican Senators won’t be able to stop Democratic health care reform plans from passing the Senate be...

Exhibit A is the outright bribe extracted by Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Corn Huckster State) from Sen. Harry Reid. As a result of Nelson’s performan...

Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Reid-Obama Health Bill UPDATED click for the list.

Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on health care, announced to his colleagues Saturday morning that he would support the...

Republicans threatened to delay Senate business with a health care read-a-thon this weekend as Democrats searched for 60 votes to advance Pr...

Sen. Jim DeMint said Thursday he is prepared to use every procedural tool to delay a vote on the Democratic healthcare legislation. Senate M...

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson -- the moderate Democrat whose opposition is holding up the Senate's health care bill -- said Thursday that new...

The White House worked on Thursday to tamp down an insurrection from some of President Barack Obama's liberal backers who feel he has be...

O, the irony: The Democrats -- who run the Congress and the White House -- have to pass health care to prove they can govern. If it falls a...

A detailed analysis of the Obama health care program now before the Senate indicates that it will force big premium increases for all famili...

How desperate has the White House become to get anything passed under the name of health-care reform? According to Michael Goldfarb’s sourc...

President Barack Obama will meet with Senate Democrats at the White House Tuesday to press for action at a make-or-break moment for his heal...

The end game in sight, Senate Democrats coped with stubborn internal differences as well as implacable Republican opposition on Monday in a ...

In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote aga...

Report finds Senate plan to cut Medicare a threat to seniors Dealing an unexpected blow to Senate Democrat's health care bill, administr...

A closer look at premium payments in both the House and Senate health care bills shows higher premiums that might discourage couples from ty...

As the Senate was debating the Nelson amendment Tuesday, CNSNews.com asked Feinstein: “Is it morally right to use tax dollars from pro-life ...

Here’s the latest update on the $2.5 trillion Reid health care bill provided by Senator John Cornyn, Republican Senator from Texas. More ...

The second leg of Quinnipiac's big national poll dropped this morning -- and it shows a serious erosion of support for Congressional hea...

The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment that would have restricted abortion coverage in the pending health-care bill, leaving in question ...

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that up to 10 million people could lose their employer-based insurance coverage under the Senate...

Employers will face the mother of all migraines when Congress passes a health care bill, probably early next year in a very close vote. Many...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform ...

President Barack Obama plans to head to the U.S. Capitol to press Senate Democrats to agree on health legislation as lawmakers struggle to r...

Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way throug...

"We want to cover the uninsured, yes, but we don't want to do it in a way that's going to drive up the costs for folks who curr...

A quick search of the Senate health bill will bring up "secretary" 2,500 times. That's because Health and Human Services Secr...

After months of buildup, the historic debate on health care reform opens on the Senate floor Monday — but the C-SPAN cameras won’t see the r...

Postpone the health care overhaul until next year so Congress can concentrate on how to pay for President Barack Obama 's expected plans...

49% of Americans now rate the quality of the U.S. health-care system as good or excellent, to only 27% percent that still argue it's poo...

With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on health care overhaul, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the bill to adva...

The Senate Republicans' chart demonstrates that the total for all of these costs -- based on CBO projections for the bill's true fi...

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaking in that trademark sonorous baritone, utters a simple statement that translates into real trouble for Democra...

Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of suppor...

Senate Democrats on Sunday sparred with each other over how to fix the nation's troubled health care system , the moderates threatening ...

Just like the original 2,032-page, government-run health care plan from Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry R...

The 2,074-page Senate health care bill would take 34 hours to read cover to cover -- and that's just what Sen. Tom Coburn wants done on...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scrambled Wednesday to pull together 60 votes for his health reform bill – and his effort got a boost from...

The amendment, authored by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., went beyond preventing the proposed government-run plan from covering abortion to rest...

"We know it's [the proposed Senate bill] been in Harry Reid's office for six weeks and the other 99 senators have not seen it,...

“H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable ye...

Officials say the Senate majority leader is considering a plan to raise the payroll tax that goes to Medicare on Americans earning more than...

Preserve your health care freedom by embracing the moderate Democrats who we need to do the right thing on health care reform. The Republica...

"What Cardinal Rigali has permitted, by way of political maneuvering, is to allow an amendment to be heard and, we fear, later watch it...