The tobacco industry is fighting a lonely battle against health insurance for poor kids.
A coalition of tobacco industry groups ran a full-page ad in the influential Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, on Monday warning President-elect Barack Obama that a proposed tobacco tax hike to cover the expansion of More…
This is a little bit inside baseball, but it lends a glimpse at the relationship between politics and policy in Washington.
Democrats, as they push to renew and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, hope to include coverage for legal immigrants, who currently must wait five years More…
That’s what Rep. Pete Stark, chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, implied today, according to The Hill. The California Democrat said that the economic troubles facing the country — as well as “deferred maintenance” health care issues like the renewal of SCHIP — would push the larger More…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — On the campaign trail over the past two weeks, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been courting the working-class vote.
“I know what Americans are going through,” she said after the stock markets took another dive last week. “Todd and I, heck, we’re going through that right now More…
For months, political observers have been waiting for Congress to revisit legislation to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which President George W. Bush has vetoed (and House Republicans have sustained) twice in the last year.
The thinking was purely political: That is, even if the Democrats couldn’t sneak More…
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