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By Calvin Woodward |
May 1, 2012
A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues, in brief.
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By Stephen Ohlemacher |
April 23, 2012
An aging population and an economy that has been slow to rebound are straining the long-term finances of Social Security and Medicare, the government's two largest benefit programs.
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By Erica Werner |
February 8, 2012
Hammered by Republicans and the Catholic Church, the White House hinted at compromise Tuesday as it struggled to calm an election-year uproar caused by its rule requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with access to free birth control.
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By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press |
January 25, 2012
President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands weren't so tied by political realities.
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By Calvin Woodward |
January 9, 2012
Executing a classic Washington dodge, Newt Gingrich told Americans that Medicare and Medicaid could be kept solid merely by ending fraud in the system, a promise of gain without pain that ignores the aging population and other great forces pressing on the programs.
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By Lauren Neergaard |
December 7, 2011
In a surprise move with election-year implications, the Obama administration's top health official overruled her own drug regulators and stopped the Plan B morning-after pill from moving onto drugstore shelves next to the condoms.
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By Calvin Woodward, Christopher S. Rugaber |
October 12, 2011
Is regulation strangling the American entrepreneur? Several Republican presidential candidates say so. The numbers don't.
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By Jim Kuhnhenn |
September 19, 2011
Drawing clear battle lines for next year's elections, a combative President Barack Obama on Monday demanded that the richest Americans pay higher taxes to help cut soaring U.S. deficits by more than $3 trillion. He promised to veto any effort by congressional Republican to cut Medicare benefits for the elderly...
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By Tom Murphy |
August 24, 2011
The percentage of companies that are already saying they expect to drop health coverage once exchanges start surprised some experts, and if they follow through, it could start a trend that chips away at employer-sponsored health coverage. The Obama administration insists employer-sponsored coverage is poised to increase, not decline.
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By Greg Bluestein |
August 15, 2011
Legal observers long expected the case would ultimately land in the high court, but experts said Friday's ruling striking down the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could finally force the justices to take the case.
