health care
Workers hit tax on ‘Cadillac’ health plans, ‘You are taxing Chevrolets!’
December 11, 2009Workers, union members and lawmakers rallied in the nation's capital yesterday in support of health care reform but against funding it with a new tax on health benefits.
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How I will be evaluating the Senate health care compromise
December 11, 2009"Blue Dog" Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu looked whipped, like she had just been a guest at a vampire banquet.
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NY rally highlights health care’s human face
December 10, 2009Eric de la Cruz wasn't poor and just over five years ago, after visiting several doctors, Eric was told that he had a serious heart ailment that was curable by a transplant.
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Liberals, centrists praise tentative health reform deal
December 10, 2009Health care reform advocates in Congress and some who have been resisting reform say the reported Senate compromise puts substantive health care reform within reach.
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Faith leaders to Lieberman: filibuster lacks ‘conscience’
December 10, 2009NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Connecticut faith leaders launched a "conscience" ad campaign in local and national papers today calling on Senator Joseph Lieberman to abandon plans to filibuster health care reform legislation.
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