nytimes.com - 1/13/2009
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The House Democratic leader said the bill, which will provide health insurance to millions of low-income children, was similar to legislation twice vetoed by President Bush. >
money.cnn.com - 1/20/2009
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money.cnn.com —
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President-elect Barack Obama, as
part of the effort to revive the economy, has...
proposed a massive effort to modernize health care by making all health records standardized and electronic. Here's the audacious plan: ...
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Obama's health care challenge - Jan. 12, 2009
truthdig.com - 1/15/2009
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truthdig.com —
Fifty million Americans are without health insurance, and
25 million are “underinsured.” Millions being laid off will...
soon be added to those rolls. At this perilous moment, we need sweeping New Deal-caliber changes, not the impotent ...
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Nothing to Fear but No Health Care
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ThinkFast: January 13, 2009
Think Progress —
... Congress plans to quickly pass a bill to “provide health insurance to millions of low-income children” through the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The bill will also “restore health insurance benefits to legal immigrants under 21.” Bush vetoed similar legislation last year ...
Progressive Breakfast: World According To TARP
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... in keeping with the post-partisan, non-ideological zeitgeist. Except it's ideological to the core."
CEPR offers the point-by-point takedown of I.O.U.S.A.
Dean Baker criticizes movie backer and star Pete Peterson for falsely attacking Social Security and Medicare.
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The House Democratic leader, Representative ...
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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... , along with The New York Times, pondered the implications of a provision allowing legal immigrant children to receive health benefits (current law results in a 5-year delay for legal immigrants seeking coverage). The Beltway publication, not forgetting to remind us about the immigration status of Treasury-pick Timothy Geithner's housekeeper, suggested that "For a number of first-year Democrats...this will be their first vote on the immigration issue." ...
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