WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich, saying he may be the "deciding vote," announced on Wednesday he will back the Senate-passed healthcare bill that President Barack Obama hopes to sign into law. Kucinich announced his support after Obama, seeking to win final passage of the measure in what is likely to be a razor-close vote, personally urged him to do ...

Catholic nuns are urging Congress to pass President Barack Obama's health care plan, in an unusual public break with bishops who say it would subsidize abortion. Some 60 leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 Catholic nuns Wednesday sent lawmakers a letter urging them ...

U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) says she's confident the House will have the votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care legislation — possibly by Friday. Sebelius spoke Tuesday in Chicago at a conference on aging. Her remarks come as the White House makes a final attempt at passing a health care overhaul. Sebelius says overhaul ...

A cancer patient who has emerged as the emblem of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was stunned last month when she unsealed a handwritten letter from none other than the president himself. Natoma Canfield, 50, had written to Obama before the ...