CNN: “Although the overall health care reform bills passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate are unpopular, many of the provisions in the existing bills are extremely popular, even among Republicans, according to a new national poll…

Roll Call: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid criticized Republicans Wednesday after the GOP denied “a unanimous consent request to pass an extension of unemployment insurance and COBRA health care benefits, a move he warned would leave ‘out-of-work Americans vulnerable to losing this valuable safety net’” (Brady, 2/24)…

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) on Wednesday said he would not attend Thursday’s bipartisan health care summit, despite House Minority Leader John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) request to the White House that the antiabortion-rights lawmaker be included in the meeting, Roll Call reports (Dennis/Kucinich, Roll Call, 2/24)…

The New York Times reports on a lack of chemistry between President Barack Obama and leading Republicans such as Rep. John A. Boehner, the House Republican leader, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell…

In a congressional hearing Wednesday, an insurance company executive justified proposed premium increases and warned “that pending legislation” could make the problem of high medical costs worse. “The executive, Angela F. Braly, president of WellPoint, made the comments in testimony prepared for a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,” The New York Times [...]