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By Heidi Przybyla

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey.
The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-out-of-five are [...]

With the possibility of losses for Democrats looming in November, the president is moving to emphasize a new economic message.
By Don Lee and Jim Puzzanghera
3:50 PM PST, January 24, 2010
Reporting from Washington
With congressional support eroding, his popularity falling and his renomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke potentially in trouble, President Obama faces an [...]

 07:44 AM CST on Wednesday, January 20, 2010
By DAVE MICHAELS / The Dallas Morning News
dmichaels@dallasnews.com
WASHINGTON – With a booming health care market and no check on hospital growth, Texas looked ripe for more rehabilitation hospitals.
But Dallas-based Reliant Healthcare Partners’ plan to build 13 of the niche hospitals in Texas might turn out to have [...]

January 22, 2010, 2:46 PM ET

By Janet Adamy and Patrick Yoest
Is there a hiatus in store for the health overhaul?
Senate Banking Chairman Christopher Dodd, an architect of the Senate bill, today threw out the idea of taking “a breather for a month, six weeks” so Congress can regroup after Senate Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority [...]

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November 19, 4:15 PM  St. Louis Headlines Examiner  Jim Burst
Schumer, “Rough estimate from the city of New York, which I received yesterday, place the added cost of moving the trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other terrorist suspects to New York somewhere in the ballpark of $75 million, that’s a minimum.”
When questioned about security [...]

State unemployment rates for October 2009 showed little change from September. Twenty-nine states and D.C. showed small increases, while the rate in thirteen states and Puerto Rico declined. The rates in eight states remained steady.
 
In October, only eight states saw statistically significant increases. Alaska and Wyoming each posted a .06% jump in unemployment, although their unemployment rates remain [...]

Call for parity with Hub facilities
By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff  |  December 1, 2009
Six community hospitals, squeezed by the economic downturn and the Massachusetts budget crunch, are set to file a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court this morning seeking millions of dollars from the state for unpaid health care services.
The suit charges that Massachusetts violated [...]

Los Angeles Times  November 27, 2009 |  3:15 pm

The arguments for and against the healthcare legislation pending in the House and Senate are well known. But what about the process that is sure to captivate Washington for many weeks to come?
It may sound wonky, but understanding the process is key to following the events about to [...]

FILE – In this May 11, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama, center, speaks about health care in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. From left: Cedars-Sinai Health System President Thomas Priselac; Merck CEO Richard Clark; Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson; Obama; American Medical Association President J. James Rohack; SEIU Healthcare [...]