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While lawmakers and President Barack Obama are lamenting premium hikes of up to 39% that Anthem Blue Cross of California plans to charge policy-holders, Lori Creasey says that's nothing. Try 69%.

Coming soon to daytime television: America's long-running civic drama over how to provide better health care to more of its people without breaking the bank.

President Barack Obama summons anxious Democrats and aloof Republicans to a White House summit Thursday – live on C-SPAN and perhaps cable – and gambles that he can save his embattled health care overhaul by the power of persuasion. Adversaries and allies alike were surprised by Obama's invitation to reason together at an open forum, as risky as it is unusual.

Americans are deeply divided over demands by U.S. Republicans that bills backed by President Barack Obama to reform the $2.5 trillion health system be scrapped and the whole process be started again from scratch.

President Obama said Tuesday that he will consider any Republican health care ideas, as long as the ideas address the goals contained ...

President Obama will meet with Democrats and Republicans to talk about health care reform February 25, and the meeting will be broadcast live, a senior administration official says.

In the first major step to revive his health care agenda after his party's loss of a filibuster-proof Senate majority, President ...

Five Democrats from swing areas of the state side with Republicans and send a rebuke to Obama's sweeping health-care reform agenda.

The speaker says the House should pass the Senate's version of the plan and then use 'budget reconciliation' to make changes that some lawmakers want.

President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders insist they will push ahead with efforts to overhaul health care. They just aren't explaining how. Obama acknowledges running into a "bit of a buzz saw" of opposition. A top Democrat suggests Congress slow down on health care, a sign of eroding political will in the wake of Republican upset in the Massachusetts Senate race Tuesday.

Dissatisfaction with direction of the U.S., opposition to health-care reform drove the upset election of Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown.