After the speech the American Medical Association supported every iteration of the health legislation even though the President never followed through.
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With their eye on 2008, the party may also tone down any health legislation in the interest of getting something done.
If the House follows suit, by year's end the President will be signing the most significant public health legislation in a decade.
But although he was a key figure in getting this year's health legislation passed, the final bill fell far short of his goals.
The very real problem of increasingly unaffordable health care is driven by the fact that authors of major health legislation have ignored the human factors that drive health costs upward.
The Medicare buy-in proposal is one element of a multi-pronged strategy a group of 10 moderate and liberal Democrats are developing in a complicated effort to secure the votes needed to pass the health legislation.
When Congress passed the health legislation plan that the President sought, they radically changed health care in the United States, and audaciously imposed a strong-armed federal government onto perhaps the most personal of all segments of American life.
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That wasn't hard, considering he served in the chamber for 46 of his 76 years, has chaired two major committees, and has played a major or minor role in nearly every piece of significant social welfare or health legislation since the mid-1960s.
Both the House bill and health care legislation passed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday contain these provisions.
Obama is leaving the details to lawmakers, but he has pledged that health care legislation would do three key things: decrease health care costs, give Americans the freedom to choose a new doctor or health care plan, and ensure all Americans have quality, affordable health care.
It also stated that health care legislation should focus on initiatives aimed at promoting good health by eliminating obesity.
Yesterday Medicare formally announced the opening of its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, an office created by the health reform legislation to pioneer ideas that improve the quality and lower the cost of health care.
Under the proposed health care legislation, they would get another assignment: checking to see whether Americans have health insurance.
Health care legislation has cleared three committees in the House of Representatives, as well as the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Faced with increasing pressure from the White House to pass health care legislation by early August, House Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday that would transform the nation's health care system if it becomes law.
According to Obama, any new health care legislation must adhere to three basic rules.
Earlier Saturday, President Obama urged lawmakers in the House to pass the pending health care legislation.
Did the President have a hand in when this health care legislation was going to be posted?
Especially that health care legislation that allows the underlying costs of goods and services to keep rising.
He said -- he was referring to the stray cats and dogs in the health care legislation.
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Orszag will be also be a major player in his area of expertise -- health care legislation.
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For its part, the NFIB has shown its willingness to make concessions to push health care legislation forward.
The health reform legislation in Congress is imperfect, of course.... Likewise, troop deployment plans in Afghanistan are imperfect.
It was enough to change the whole narrative about the health care legislation.
The new health reform legislation could shake the foundations of this cozy set-up.
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The prospect of new health care legislation or changes to Medicare prompt them to feel skittish about the future.
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But here's the thing: none of these options have been proposed by President Obama or adopted in health reform legislation.
"I'm still cautious on this sector until we have more clarity as to the pending health care legislation, " he says.
The speech was one of a series of abortion language developments that paved the way to passage of health care legislation.
His statement differed from comments by some other Democratic leaders, who call the public option essential for any health care legislation.
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