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For President Obama, giving up on a public insurance plan could punch a hole in Republican arguments but could also alienate liberal Democrats.

Having grown up in one of the most conservative and Republican places in the country -- East Tennessee -- I understand why many of the people who are showing up at town hall meetings this month are reacting, sometimes violently, when members of Congress try to explain the need for an expanded government role in our health care system.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sold off almost all of its pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health-care investments in the quarter ended June 30.

The president tells a crowd in Montana: 'What you haven't seen on TV, and what makes me proud, are the many constructive meetings going on all over the country.'

President Obama today denounced the news media's emphasis on scenes of angry protesters at healthcare town halls as he fielded polite but tough questioning on his efforts.

In something of a blitz before taking off on a family vacation, President Obama heads west on Friday, seeking to drill up support for the centerpiece of his domestic agenda. President Obama held a town hall meeting on health care Tuesday in ...

The health care battle bubbling over in town-hall forums across the country this month is shifting to television screens as groups ...

President Barack Obama assailed insurance companies on Tuesday as he sought to counter an onslaught of conservative opposition to a U.S. healthcare overhaul at a town hall meeting that drew protests outside.

Rush Limbaugh and those who invoking the Nazi analogy to attack President Barack Obama's effort to reform health care in America are not “insane” as David Brooks pronounced on last Sunday's “Meet the Press.

President Obama is switching his message on his overhaul of the nation's health care system, readying a fresh pitch designed ...

'Un-American' attacks can't derail health care debate By Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer Americans have been waiting for nearly a century for quality, affordable health care. Health coverage for all was on the national agenda as early as 1912, thanks...