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Obama’s Healthcare Plan: True Universality?
firedoglake.com - 2/27/2009
Obama’s Healthcare Plan: True Universality?
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Image by mnd Ezra Klein is stating that universality will be a goal of Obama's healthcare plan . At $634 billion, over 10 years (that's $63.4 billion a year) it's hard to see how Congress is going to turn Obama's plan into real universal healthcare because that simply isn't enough money. ...
blogs.tnr.com - 3/2/2009
The Early Word on Nancy-Ann Min DeParle
— blogs.tnr.com — When President Obama introduced Kathleen Sebelius as his nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services... a few moments ago, he also introduced Nancy-Ann Min DeParle as his new White House health care advisor. You're going to hear a lot of talk ... (more) The Early Word on Nancy-Ann Min DeParle

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online.wsj.com - 2/26/2009
Medicaid: Family-Planning Provision Makes Its Way Into Budget Plan
— online.wsj.com — LAURA MECKLER During debate over the economic stimulus package, Republicans protested a provision that would have made... it easier for states to expand coverage of contraceptives through their Medicaid programs. The GOP portrayed the measure as ... (more) Medicaid: Family-Planning Provision Makes Its Way Into ...

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content.usatoday.com - 2/24/2009
Obama tweaks GOP governors on stimulus, announces $15 billion in Medicaid relief - The Oval: ...
— content.usatoday.com — President Obama weighed in this morning on the argument Republican governors are having among themselves over whether... the $787 billion stimulus package is wasteful and how much of it they will or won't accept. Obama, speaking this morning to the ... (more) Obama tweaks GOP governors on stimulus, announces $15 ...

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The Sideshow:  Please don't spoil my day, I'm miles away

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Please don't spoil my day, I'm miles away
The Sideshow — ... At Firedoglake: Ian Welsh is explaining the things that a workable "universal" health insurance plan must have. (I say it still sounds like there's too much administration and too much, well, insurance industry, in the plan. Let's call for an NHS!) Marcy Wheeler says ...

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