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by James Oliphant and updated at 5:15 pm EDT Legislation that would transform the nation's healthcare system cleared a significant hurdle today, as the Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 for a sweeping overhaul. Just one Republican, Sen. Olympia J....

by Mark Silva Republicans, yes. Democrats, no. It's a volatile mix for a health-care overhaul that the White House is seeking. Alll eyes may be on the Senate Finance Committee today, but the outcome of the health-care overhaul in the......

by Mark Silva As the Senate Finance Committee sets out to vote today on a health-care overhaul which supporters say will offer heatlh insurance to millions of more Americans -- with the Congressional Budget Office setting the cost at about......

by James Oliphant Wyoming, with an economy marked by farming, ranching and small businesses, has a disproportionate number of people without medical insurance. And by that measures and others, its people are among the likely winners, if Congress...

by Mark Silva This, the White House makes clear, is not the goal line. With the Senate Finance Committee's passage of health-care legislation today, the fifth of five House and Senate committees with jurisdiction to adopt reforms having acted, the......

by Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook Amid fresh signs of intraparty tensions among Democrats over healthcare, Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D-Mont). today released what he said was an $856 billion bill to reshape the nation's healthcare system with........

by Mark Silva and updated at 9:20 pm President Barack Obama, offering some concessions to Republicans and yielding some of his own ground on health care, maintained tonight that a "public option'' of government-run insurance is only one option open......

by Mark Silva and Christi Parsons With a nationally televised prime-time address to Congress tonight, President Barack Obama hopes to clarify and promote - but not insist upon - a "public option'' in the health-insurance overhaul that he is seeking......

by Mark Silva Vice President Joe Biden found a way to paraphrase Mark Twain and George Mitchell within virtually the same breath today, all while passing through Iraq. For all the disarray characterizing the health-care debate today -- with neither......

by Mark Silva Will the "cap and trade'' legislation that the House has passed and the Senate is weighing cost people money? "Yes sir,'' says one of the Senate sponsors, Sen. John Kerry. The cost of inaction, he says, is......

by Mark Silva There really are only three things at work here: In Washington, there is rhetoric, and there is action. Outside of Washington, there is perception. At the moment, the public's perception is that President Barack Obama is making......

by Mark Silva and updated at 11:15 am EDT President Barack Obama, acknowledging trouble in "breaking through'' to the American public with his proposal for a health-care overhaul, made an unprecedented public push today with a series of nationally...