BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator asserted Tuesday during a rancorous floor debate that President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul will shorten the lives of America’s seniors by cutting Medicare.

“I have a message for you: You’re…

BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans don’t expect a health care overhaul to affect their lives directly, but those who worry about the fallout outnumber those expecting to come out ahead, a poll out Tuesday has found.
The…

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
New York Times
Over two days of debate on the Senate floor about the motion to move ahead with the major health care legislation, Democrats and Republicans fired volley after volley of contradictory claims about the proposed bill.…

By Noam N. Levey
Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Compromises and more compromises.
The health care bill that the Senate will begin debating next week is the result of numerous compromises that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., worked out to unite…

By David Lightman • McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON • Americans could pay billions of dollars more in new taxes for a few years before they’re likely to see significant change in the nation’s health care system under legislation that Congress is considering.
Some…

BY MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama signed a law expanding children’s health insurance this spring, he slapped tobacco companies with huge tax increases to pay for it.

It didn’t take long for the companies to find…

By Anna M. Tinsley
McClatchy Newspapers

FORT WORTH, Texas _ President Barack Obama never said her name, but Robin Beaton knew he was talking about her Wednesday night during his health care reform speech. He spoke of a Texas woman who was…

By William Douglas and David Lightman
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON _ If President Barack Obama was looking for a big bounce in support from lawmakers Thursday from his health care address to Congress on Wednesday night, he didn’t get it.

Predictably, Democratic leaders of…

BY ALAN FRAM
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Public disapproval of President Barack Obama’s handling of health care has leaped to 52 percent, according to Associated Press-GfK poll that underscores the country’s glowering mood as the White House made a renewed pitch for…

By Richard Simon
Tribune Newspapers

WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama addressed Congress Wednesday night, he got an unusual greeting: “You lie.”

The comment from Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., could be heard throughout the House chamber and on television in response to Obama’s…