actblue.com - 6/16/2009
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Nothing is more important to the American people
than passing health care reform that reduces costs and...
provides security and coverage for everyone. The economy and the nation's competitiveness will not recover if this isn't done and this may be our ...
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Campaign For Health Care Choice
cbsnews.com - 6/17/2009
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The Congressional Budget Office says Sen. Ted Kennedy's
health care proposal could cost $1 trillion over 10...
years. Photo The Congressional Budget Office says Sen. Ted Kennedy's health care proposal could cost $1 trillion over 10 years. (CBS)
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How Will We Pay For The Health Care Plan?
online.wsj.com - 6/12/2009
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STEVEN A. BURD Effective health-care reform must meet
two objectives: 1) It must secure coverage for all...
Americans, and 2) it must dramatically lower the cost of health care. Health-care spending has outpaced the rise in all other consumer spending by ...
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How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs
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Video: RNC takes shot at 'government run healthcare'
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Video: RNC takes shot at 'government run healthcare' The RNC is seizing on Americans' disgust with bureaucracy and red tape to take a shot at President Obama's "government run healthcare" plan. A new web released by the committee video shows a telephone display screen with a vital sign graphic across it. An automated operator answers: "You have reached the United States federal government healthcare plan. You're approximate hold time is 35 hrs, and 26 min. The next available surgical appointment is August 14, 2011. If you'd like to be assigned a government-approved doctor at random, please press 1." And so on and so forth. Democrats, of course, refer to ...
The WonkLine: June 16, 2009
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