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White House health-care deal: Tempest
The Swampby Tom Hamburger An $80-billion deal with the drug industry that the White House thought would add momentum to its campaign for national healthcare reform has instead provoked a political tempest, frustrating and bewildering some of the president's most...Tags: Barack Obama, Pharmaceuticals, Private Health Care, Rahm Emanuel, National Government
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Health-care compromise: A rural deficit
The Swampby James Oliphant Wyoming, with an economy marked by farming, ranching and small businesses, has a disproportionate number of people without medical insurance. And by that measures and others, its people are among the likely winners, if Congress...Tags: National Government, Insurance, Laws, Government, Heads of State
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Baucus' health-care bill: GOP balking
The Swampby Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook Amid fresh signs of intraparty tensions among Democrats over healthcare, Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D-Mont). today released what he said was an $856 billion bill to reshape the nation's healthcare system with........Tags: Labor Legislation, Family, Private Health Care, Insurance, National Government
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Health care: New plan, same as the old?
The Swampby Mark Silva Today, a Labor Day on which unemployment has logged in at a near three-decade high of 9.7 percent, President Barack Obama plans to deliver the Labor Day talk to an AFL-CIO picnic in Cincinnati, but the president......Tags: Barack Obama, NBC (tv network), David Axelrod, National Government, Local Elections
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President's speech: 'Season for action'
The Swampby Mark Silva "I am not the first president to take up this cause,'' President Barack Obama plans to tell Congress and the nation this evening in his push for health-care reform, "but I am determined to be the last.......Tags: Barack Obama, Theodore Roosevelt, National Government, Insurance, Illnesses
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Obama, health: 'Time for games passed'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 9:20 pm President Barack Obama, offering some concessions to Republicans and yielding some of his own ground on health care, maintained tonight that a "public option'' of government-run insurance is only one option open......Tags: Barack Obama, Migration, Theodore Roosevelt, National Government, Insurance
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Health care, debt and taxes: GOP
The Swampby Mark Silva Debt and taxes. That's what Americans stand to get from the health-care reform that Democrars are pressing, Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson says in his party's weekly address. "Americans have been calling us and e-mailing us,'' the senator......Tags: National Government, Government, State Budgets, Medical Services, Medicare
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Health care: Insurance regulators rule
The Swampby Andrew Zajac. Healthcare overhaul legislation moving through the Senate Finance Committee would put crucial rule-making authority in the hands of a private association of state insurance commissioners that consumer advocates fear is too closely tied to...Tags: Retirement, Insurance, Sandy Praeger, Justice System, Consumers
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Baucus asked to curb insurers
The SwampA group of insurance consumer advocates has asked Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus to back off plans to put rule-writing authority for drafting health care coverage standards in the hands of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a private...Tags: Medical Services, Insurance, Max Baucus, Consumers
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Senators nix 'public option' in health care
The Swampby Mark Silva The Senate Finance Committee, working through amendments to a sweeping health-care overhaul, today flatly rejected the concept of a "public option,'' a government-run insurance plan for people who cannot find coverage privately. The...Tags: White House, Barack Obama, Medical Services, Laws, Max Baucus
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Obama vs. GOP: It's the economy
The Swampby Mark Silva "Employment is often the last thing to come back after a recession,'' President Barack Obama notes today, in his weekly address, the day after the Labor Department reported 9.8 percent unemployment in September, the highest rate since......Tags: Barack Obama, National Government, Insurance, Laws, Credit and Debt
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Obama's 'public option:' Alive, well...
The Swampby Noam Levey and Janet Hook Despite months of outward ambivalence about creating a government health insurance plan, the Obama White House has launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to get divided Senate Democrats to take up some version of the idea......Tags: Barack Obama, National Government, Insurance, Laws, Harry Reid
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