Mar 24 Wednesday: Obama to Sign Order on Abortion; Senate Picks Up Debate By Jason Breslow Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., holds up a copy of an Executive Order banning the use of federal funds to be used for abortions, which will be signed by President Barack Obama on Wednesday afternoon. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images.)… Continue reading
Mar 24 Watch Health Reform: What Are the Changes to Medicare? Gwen Ifill talks to NPR reporter Julie Rovner about how changes to Medicare, including new taxes and adjustments in prescription drug coverage, under health care reform may impact Americans over the age of 65. Continue watching
Mar 24 Watch Senate Republicans Push Back on Health Care Fixes Republicans proposed a long list of amendments during Senate debate on a package of changes to the new health care bill, as Democrats attempt to finish the legislation. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Mar 24 Watch Newsmaker: Speaker Pelosi on Finishing Health Care’s Uphill Climb After Sunday's historic vote on health care reforms in the House, Jim Lehrer talks to Speaker Nancy Pelosi about finding enough votes to pass President Obama's signature domestic issue. Continue watching
Mar 23 Politico Editor: Health Reform Push Will Reverberate in 2010 Elections By Hari Sreenivasan As we start to look closer at the political fallout from health care reform, Politico White House Editor Craig Gordon spoke with us Tuesday about how the legislative battle over the bill in Congress will now shift to a… Continue reading
Mar 23 The International Response to Health Care Reform As the health care debate raged in town halls across the United States last summer, a cross-Atlantic debate also emerged, with some conservatives criticizing government-run health care in Britain and holding it up as an example of everything they… Continue reading
Mar 23 What You Should Know About Health Care Reform: Two Views President Obama signed health care reform into law in a White House ceremony Tuesday. Two players in the debate over reform offer their views on what Americans need to know about the bill. Continue reading
Mar 23 President Obama Signs Health Reform Into Law By Lea Winerman _pap_embed_custom('news01s3d09qe42',482,304,""); President Obama on Tuesday signed health care reform into law, in front of a cheering crowd of lawmakers and Americans who will be affected by the bill. "Today, after almost a century of trying, today after over a… Continue reading
Mar 23 Q&A: Norm Ornstein on the Senate and the Reconciliation Vote on Health Care As President Obama prepares to sign health care reform into law, the U.S. Senate still has steps to take to consider a package of revisions to the legislation - a promise made to House Democrats who wanted changes made to… Continue reading
Mar 23 Tuesday: Obama Set to Sign Health Bill, Meet With Israel’s Netanyahu President Barack Obama is set to put into law the most sweeping piece of social legislation in decades Tuesday when he puts his signature on the health care overhaul bill in a White House ceremony. After the ceremony at… Continue reading