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truthdig.com - 4/7/2009
Health Care at Last
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Yes, this is the year Congress will finally give every American access to health insurance. Getting there won’t be pretty. But for the first time since the passage of Medicare in the 1960s, the forces favoring action on health care reform are stronger than the forces of cynicism and ...
House Republican Conference: "The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household $3,128 a year."
politifact.com - 4/1/2009
House Republican Conference: "The administration raises revenue for nationalized health ...
— politifact.com — The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! | GOP full of hot air about Obama's "light switch tax"... Taxpayers may have been shocked to learn from House Republicans that President Barack Obama wants to pay for health care by charging them to turn on a ... (more) House Republican Conference: "The administration ...

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nytimes.com - 4/7/2009
Editorial - A Public Plan for Health Insurance?
— nytimes.com — President Obama has rightly called for sweeping health care reform and charged Congress with coming up with... a program. Expect a tough political fight. Already one of the most contentious issues is whether to include a new public plan option to compete ... (more) Editorial - A Public Plan for Health Insurance?
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The Caucus - Health Care Cautions, From One Who Knows
nytimes.com - 4/13/2009
The Caucus - Health Care Cautions, From One Who Knows
— nytimes.com — From a friendly ghost of health care debates past comes this caution for Team Obama and Congressional... Democrats: Think smaller. Seek less. Don’t fail. The caution comes from Richard A. Gephardt , a former Missouri congressman and a major figure in ... (more) The Caucus - Health Care Cautions, From One Who Knows

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The Republic of T.:  Digest for April 4th through April 7th

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Digest for April 4th through April 7th
The Republic of T. — Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for April 4th through April 7th: God Is Not a Fan of the Banking Industry - Back to the 1930s, Part I - Resist or Become Serfs - Moyers Journal: Maddoff Was A Piker — America’s Big Banks Are a Far Larger Fraudulent Ponzi Scheme - Republicans: You Lost. - Editorial: The New Debtors’ Prisons - Health Care Reform at Last - Will Geithner Fire Corporate ...

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