Nine doctors of the House will be in the house Tuesday when they travel to a Washington medical school auditorium to discuss health care with members of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. The non-partisan society tried to contact all the health professionals in Congress, Democratic and Republican, but ended up with a Republican-only list that includes eight physicians… Read more »

President Obama offered a wonkish defense of his embattled health-care reform effort during an hour-long town hall meeting in Northern Virginia yesterday that featured seven questions, including one sent via Twitter and several from a handpicked audience of supporters. With the president's health-care ambitions meeting a cool reception on Capitol Hill, the administration is… Read more »

After receiving hundreds of questions through the White House website and social networking sites, President Barack Obama took up just seven of them Wednesday at a health care town hall. The event was touted as a way to open the process and invite questions from voters around the country via YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. But two of the three audience questions came from two groups… Read more »

Your day in health care: President Obama held a partially online health care town hall in suburban Virginia. Part that dragged the most: His very long, statistics-laden opening statement (there was only time for seven questions.) Emotional high point: He hugged a woman in the audience after she tearfully told him she has renal cell carcinoma and no health insurance. He said he… Read more »

Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, asked President Barack Obama a question via a YouTube video during Obama's town hall forum on health care yesterday. Burgess asked Obama why he opposed caps on malpractice suits, since that's proven to bring down medical costs for doctors in Texas. "In my homestate of Texas, we know what works," Burgess said. Obama said he opposes "artifical… Read more »

I was pleased that the question on medical justice reform I submitted via YouTube for the White House town hall on health care was selected to be asked of President Obama. Even more so, I was pleased to hear that President Obama and I share the common goal of reducing medical liability insurance rates and the constant threat of lawsuits many doctors and hospitals face. As a practicing… Read more »

Construction has begun on a $17 million expansion of Rosedale Street in southeast Fort Worth. The two-year project will increase Rosedale from four to six lanes with medians along a 1.1-mile stretch between Interstate 35W and U.S. 287, according to a news release from the Texas Department of Transportation. Other features include drainage improvements and a new railroad bridge.… Read more »

President Barack Obama hugged a cancer patient Wednesday at an emotional forum before a supportive audience and vowed to bring greater efficiency and accessibility to the nation's health care system. Debby Smith, 53, of Appalachia, Va., a volunteer for Obama's political operation, fought tears as she told the president of her kidney cancer and her inability to obtain health insurance… Read more »

Several members of the North Texas congressional delegation plan a fierce fight against the climate change bill scheduled to go before the House today, saying it will hurt the economy. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, has made it a mission to kill the bill, which for the first time would limit the pollution blamed for global warming. The bill "is a costly and harmful policy… Read more »

The House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Health began Tuesday what will be week-long hearings on a draft of the Democrats' health care reform plan. Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-Texas), a member of the Health subcommittee, said he looks forward to learning more about the draft plan, but believes the hearings are a far-cry from real bipartisan efforts.… Read more »