wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 3/3/2009
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President Obama’s budget allocates $634 billion towards health care reform but only half of that amount will come from new sources of revenue (namely, reducing itemized deduction rates for families with incomes over $250,000). The other half is already in the health care system, but ...
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 2/27/2009
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How some of it will be paid for
: The budget accounts for increases in premiums paid...
by Medicare recipients earning more than $170,000 per year, and reducing the itemized deduction rate for families with incomes over $250,000 per year.
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Obama's Long-Term Budget
apnews.myway.com - 2/24/2009
msnbc.msn.com - 2/25/2009
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msnbc.msn.com —
A new government report on medical costs paints
a stark picture for President Barack Obama, who is...
expected to call for a health care overhaul in a speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress.
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Health care costs to top $8,000 per person
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When should "the last word" actually be the banner headline?
Wizbang —
... (whom I like more and more) snarks: Aha. ... And here I almost believed Obama's health care plans were all about lowering costs and ...
Santorum: Reconciliation ‘Has Never Been Done Before’ — Except For When I Used It
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Last week, the White House increased the pressure to pass President Obama's budget proposal this week by keeping the reconciliation language in place that would allow the budget -- and the essential health care reforms it includes -- to pass with 51 rather than 60 Senate votes.
Adding his voice to the conservative hysteria over the use of reconciliation, former senator Rick Santorum declared today that such a move would "short-circuit the process" and "has never been done before":
SANTORUM: What the Democrats have done is ...
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