Barack Obama, Universal Health Care | featured news

After an epic political battle, Congress gave final approval to an overhaul of the nation’s health system that would provide medical coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans.

In a major victory for the president, Democratic leaders get the Senate version passed, then engineer passage of a package designed to reconcile that bill and the one OKd by the House last year.

Delivering a hard-fought victory in President Obama's yearlong pursuit of a national healthcare overhaul, a divided House narrowly approved legislation Sunday night that could reshape the way Americans deal with wellness and illness.

The hard-fought measure would be a victory for President Obama - and, he says, for the American people. The House of Representatives was poised Sunday to pass a sweeping overhaul of the healthcare system and, in the process, hand President Obama a major political victory on the issue he has made the centerpiece of his domestic agenda.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote today on a sweeping health care reform bill already passed by the Senate. If the bill is approved, President Obama will sign it into law.

Claiming unstoppable momentum but still short of the goal line, President Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to rally House Democrats ...

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.

President Obama went to Massachusetts to support the candidacy of Martha Coakley, on whose election the Democrats’ health care agenda now hinges.

As lawmakers take a recess, several Dems ready to give in if it means getting the trillion-dollar bill to Obama quickly.

In an epic struggle settled at dawn, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed health care legislation Thursday, a triumph for President Barack Obama that clears the way for compromise talks with the House on a bill to reduce the ranks of the uninsured and rein in the insurance industry.

A broad healthcare overhaul passed its first crucial test in the U.S. Senate on Monday, with 60 Democrats voting to put President Barack Obama's top legislative priority on a path to passage by Christmas.