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President Obama on Monday tore into private health insurers for recent rate hikes, taking a more aggressive rhetorical turn as he pushes for final congressional passage of his top domestic priority.

Angela F. Braly, president of WellPoint, told a House panel that higher premiums were justified by soaring costs.

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%.

Health insurer Anthem Blue Cross will postpone its much-criticized plan to raise rates for some California residents who buy ...

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

The chagrined leader of the opposition Republican Party has told Republican National Committee staff to immediately stop providing RNC employees with insurance for elective abortions — an option that Republicans strongly oppose as Democrats try to pass a health care overhaul bill.

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is predicting that the House will pass historic health care overhaul legislation Saturday to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and ban insurance companies from turning people away....

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to offer an alternative to Democrats' massive healthcare reform bill that would not raise taxes or require people or businesses to buy health insurance, the House Republican leader said on Sunday.

Support of government-backed insurance plan is a key concession to liberals, but the Senate provision would also give states the right to opt out.

The drug and insurance industries have dramatically amped up their efforts to lobby Congress, spending millions over a three-month ...