CMA Press Clips
Daily  reports on health care policy and medicine from newspapers and magazines throughout California and around the nation.

Democrats Put Lower Priority on Health Bill
New York Times - 1/26/10 - With no clear path forward on major health care legislation, Democratic leaders in Congress effectively slammed the brakes on President Obama’s top domestic priority on Tuesday, saying they no longer felt pressure to move quickly on a health bill after eight months of setting deadlines and missing them.

Top Democrats at war - with each other
Politico - 1/27/10 - President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be all smiles as the president arrives at the Capitol for his State of the Union speech Wednesday night, but the happy faces can’t hide relationships that are fraying and fraught.

Backroom health care deals fuel voter anger
Associated Press - 1/27/10 - Special legislative favors, especially one designed to secure a Nebraska senator's vote for the embattled health care package, ignited so much public outrage that President Barack Obama is calling them a mistake and House leaders say the bill can't be resurrected unless such sweetheart deals are scrapped.

Mass. in mind for State of Union
Boston Blobe - 1/27/10 - President Obama is expected to deliver a State of the Union speech tonight with a simple but politically crucial acknowledgment: Massachusetts, I heard you.

Few like Congress' work on health care
San Diego Union-Tribune - 1/27/10 - California voters of all political persuasions are unhappy with the way Congress is handling proposals to overhaul the health care system, a new Field Poll shows.

Americans Want Obama to Spend More Time on the Economy, Poll Finds
Wall Street Journal - 1/27/10 - On the eve of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, voters think the president should be spending more time on the economy.