Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has his fingerprints all over a push to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health insurance plans in a new market for people who don’t get insurance through their employers.
U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-Midland), who has played a significant role in the health care debate as minority leader of the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, was interviewed Thursday morning in the Leelanau Enterprise office. Enter read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, weighing fresh concessions to abortion opponents and working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passed a health bill with strict abortion limits.
The proposed Senate health care bill would prevent undocumented immigrants from buying insurance from an exchange that would be created for people who don't receive health insurance from their employers.
The health care debate has sucked so much oxygen out of the Capitol's chambers that it's been easy to miss another simmering story: Democratic fears about the economy.
