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Since the recession began a year ago, many states have seen increases in the Medicaid rolls just as tax revenues are falling below projections.

The Congressional Budget Office said many plans championed by President-elect Barack Obama would generate only modest savings.

Obama advisers and Congressional Democrats are aiming for a stimulus package by late January that could total just under $1 trillion.

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Key players in the debate over how to provide healthcare coverage for the nation's 47 million uninsured say they view Massachusetts' landmark 2006 law as an important model for what Washington could do and how to get it done.

Cutting off low-income patients may cost more in the long run, a new study suggests.

Insurance lobbies, health care trade groups and medical societies are encouraging their members to attend Obama house parties.

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Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. state governments are reducing spending for the first time since 1983 as the recession erodes the tax collections that pay for schools, health clinics and other local programs, a national survey found.

By choosing former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to head his healthcare reform effort, President-elect Barack Obama got more than an old congressional hand with a policy book on his resume.

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Tom Daschle, Barack Obama’s choice to be health and human services secretary, acknowledges that securing national health care will be difficult.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/us/politics/12daschle.html?_r=2&hp

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As more people turn to emergency rooms as a last resort, doctors warn that hospitals could be overwhelmed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/business/09emergency.html?_r=1&hp