Corker gives gloomy diagnosis for health care overhaul bill U.S. Sen. Bob Corker had a gloom-and-doom diagnosis for Democrat-sponsored Senate health care reform legislation at a town hall meeting in downtown Elizabethton on Wednesday. “If Republicans crafted a (health care reform) bill exactly like the bill that is coming before us, word for word … there...

Health-Care Reform to Dump Poor Kids? Oleta Fitzgerald, director of the Children’s Defense Fund’s Southern Regional Office, says she is concerned over the welfare of Mississippi children if either of the two health-care reform packages considered by the U.S. House and Senate ever make it into law. The House passed H.R. 3962 earlier...