by Markham Heid | Oct 28, 2009 | Science + Technology
Washington — The message was clear: Don’t bite the hand that feeds your constituents. Members of Business Roundtable, a consortium of high-profile corporate heavy hitters, held a teleconference Wednesday to denounce the public option and excoriate Senate...
by Markham Heid | Oct 27, 2009 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama shoulders forward the Sisyphean boulder of health care reform, he trudges in the footsteps of his predecessors. No fewer than four U.S. presidents in the past century have tried and failed to enact universal health care...
by Markham Heid | Oct 21, 2009 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON –In an attempt to quell renewed public concern over the H1N1 flu virus, three of President Barack Obama’s top Cabinet officials assured members of Congress on Wednesday that the swine flu outbreak in the U.S. is still under control. The American...
by Markham Heid | Oct 15, 2009 | Science + Technology
Get the Flash Player to see this player. Washington — Florida Rep. Alan Grayson joined petitioners Wednesday in calling for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to corral blue dog Democrats and pass health reform now. (Markham Heid/MNS)
by Markham Heid | Oct 14, 2009 | Politics, Science + Technology
An expert on international health policy and the economics of U.S. health care, Bob Kocher joined the Obama administration earlier this year as a member of the National Economic Council. As a member of the president’s health-care economics and policy brain...
