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After decades of suffering as her body gnarled and stiffened from rheumatoid arthritis, Bonnie Cramer began taking a new drug around 2002.

Congressional leaders clearly believe that pharmaceutical companies can afford to contribute more than $80 billion to support health reform.

Main Category: Seniors / Aging Also Included In: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP Article Date: 22 Nov 2009 The California Medical Association praised the U.S. House of Representatives today for passing HR 3961, legislation that will ease the difficulty seniors face in finding a physician who accepts Medicare.

The U.S. House approved spending $210 billion over 10 years to avert cuts in federal reimbursements to doctors participating in the Medicare program.

Leaders of the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office last night requesting an expedited report on recent trends in prescription drug pricing.

Is the support of the pharmaceutical industry needed for Congress to pass health care reform? Or is the price of that support too high for the people the reform package is trying to help? Those questions took on new urgency this week with the release of a study by AARP, the seniors advocacy group, that found that drug makers had raised the ...

I guess many Members of Congress secretly realize the Dean of Harvard Med was correct when he attacked the proposed healthcare legislation as a virtual anti-health boondoggle in the WSJ last week, because those members aren't signing onto the legislation for themselves .

The Department of Health and Human Services will issue consumer warnings about price variations for a scarce liquid form of the flu-fighting drug Tamiflu, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 5:17 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 5:17 a.m. Democrats in Congress asked for two separate investigations of drug industry pricing Wednesday as they continue working on legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system.

Congressional Democrats' intensifying efforts to pay for their health care overhaul and provide more relief for consumers are threatening to unravel a White House deal with the pharmaceutical industry and turn one of Washington's most powerful lobbies against the legislation.

Calling on the international community to take action now and commit to fight climate change and promote alternative energy, Governor Schwarzenegger today participated in the sixth annual Saban Forum in Jerusalem, Israel, hosted by the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy.

Those of us former little girls of a certain age can remember a doll that we all had to have.

The chief executive of a local coal mine that laid off 91 workers Friday lashed out at government policies that are choking the economy and putting other policies ahead of jobs for Americans.

A former House speaker, an ex-lawmaker and eight aides Thursday became the latest - and the first Republicans - to be charged in a 3-year-old investigation into the diversion of public resources and employees to Pennsylvania legislative campaigns.

While the debate over prescription drug advertising persists, a new study released online in the American Journal of Public Health offers guidelines for improving drug ads in order to minimize potential harm and maximize benefits.

By Lori Montgomery House Democratic leaders agreed Friday night to settle an impasse over abortion by letting the entire House vote on a proposed solution, a risky decision that could determine the fate of their trillion-dollar overhaul of the nation's health care system.

Obama met with the House Democratic caucus this morning. Sam Stein has a report on his message : The president, according multiple attendees, played the role of political prognosticator during his roughly 30 minute address before Democratic caucus members on Capitol Hill.

When people think of health care and Congress, often the first name that springs to mind is the late Sen.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman said yesterday there is "no guarantee" that an amendment approved by the House on Saturday that prohibits federal funding of abortion in the health care bill will be retained in the final version of the bill.

Bart Stupak and Rep. Joe Pitts That Would Prevent Federal Funding Of Abortion In Democratsa Health Care Experiment.