"… e to receive Medicare payments for audio and video home monitoring under a Senate bill reintroduced last week after going nowhere in three recent sessions o …"

"… health costs. The legislation did not receive a floor vote in the House or Senate in previous attempts in 2005, 2007, and 2009, as other health care reform …"

"… ated no visible opposition. This year’s version has been referred to the Senate Finance Committee, where health IT observers believe it stands an improved …"

"… and with the telehealth bill’s chief backer, Thune, now on the powerful Senate Finance Committee — advocates hope the fourth time will be the charm for …"

"… lawed,” Democrat Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said when the panel passed his version of the legislati …"

"… Fed and other government agencies on various issues in 2007, according to Senate lobbying disclosure records. As part of its lobbying campaign, the banker …"

"… ka, has signaled that he will help lead an effort to change the law in the Senate. Nelson is a former insurance company executive who previously served as N …"

"… ssed in the fall of 2009. Alarmed, insurance lobbyists went to work in the Senate and hit paydirt when they convinced Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to c …"

"… tion out of the bill. The House ultimately had no choice but to follow the Senate’s lead, which is why the bill that became law last March did not inc …"

"… so successful that the Patient’s Bill of Rights, co-sponsored in the Senate by John McCain and Ted Kennedy, never made it to the president’s des …"

"… Committee doesn’t think this is important enough to look into, maybe the Senate will.News analyst Wendell Potter, a former insurance company executive, is …"

"… record earnings.I talked about mini-meds in June 2009 testimony before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. I told the panel that big …"

"… ect mini-med plan, according to a Web site entry that was removed after my Senate appearance, pre-existing conditions are not covered during the first six m …"

"… ly by the insurance industry and backed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, gave Medicare beneficiaries the option of gett …"

"… ay pale by comparison.If Democrats have any hope of keeping control of the Senate and regaining the House, they better be able to explain what’s really go …"

"… voted 94-49 to approve legislation that has been years in the making. The Senate approved the measure a few days earlier. While it will not establish a gov …"

"… all kinds of forums, from town halls to Chambers of Commerce to House and Senate hearings.Oxfeld got involved in the single-payer movement from a sense of …"

"… mportant enough to really help his mother.If Obama had been elected to the Senate before his mother got sick, her story might have had a different ending. A …"

"… Georgia state Sen. Jack Murphy, who recently became chairman of the state Senate’s banking committee. He was a member of Integrity’s board of directors …"