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		<title>Senate panel approves middle-of-the-road health care plan with support from GOP&#8217;s Snowe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — With support from a lone Republican, a key Senate committee Tuesday approved a middle-of-the-road health care plan that moves President Barack Obama&#8217;s goal of wider and affordable coverage a giant step closer to becoming law.

Maine Republican Olympia Snowe said she was laying aside misgivings for now and voting to advance the bill, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unions plan ad announcing opposition to Senate Finance Committee bill unless it&#8217;s changed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — About 30 unions will run a full-page ad in newspapers Wednesday announcing their opposition to the Senate Finance Committee&#8217;s health overhaul bill, a top labor lobbyist said.

The ad will state that unions will oppose the measure on the Senate floor unless improvements are made, according to Chuck Loveless, legislative director of the American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maine senator&#8217;s decision gives Finance bill a bipartisan glow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe broke with her party Tuesday and said she will vote for a Democratic health care bill, handing President Barack Obama a much-sought boost in his quest to expand access to medical coverage to all Americans.

Approval of the legislation by the Senate Finance Committee was a foregone conclusion going into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP&#8217;s Snowe to vote for Democrats&#8217; bill to overhaul country&#8217;s health care system</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Kellman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Forget Sarah Palin. The maverick female of the Republican Party is Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe.

The 62-year-old, moderate Maine lawmaker announced Tuesday she will vote for a Democratic health care bill, breaking with her party and giving a major boost to President Barack Obama&#8217;s goal of expanding coverage.
&#8220;When history calls, history calls,&#8221; Snowe told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBO says health Care bill to expand coverage to 94 percent at 10-year cost of $829 billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Health care legislation drafted by a key Senate committee would expand coverage to 94 percent of all eligible Americans at a 10-year cost of $829 billion, congressional budget experts said Wednesday, a preliminary estimate likely to power the measure past a major hurdle within days.

The Congressional Budget Office added that the measure would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBO: health Care bill expands coverage to 94 percent of eligible coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Espo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Health care legislation drafted by a key Senate committee would expand coverage to 94 percent of all eligible Americans at a 10-year cost of $829 billion, congressional budget experts said Wednesday, a preliminary estimate likely to power the measure past a major hurdle within days.

The Congressional Budget Office added that the measure would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Baucus releases long-awaited health overhaul bill; would cost $856 billion over 10 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sen. Max Baucus on Wednesday brought out the much-awaited Finance Committee version of an American health-system remake — a landmark $856 billion, 10-year measure that starts a rough ride through Congress without visible Republican backing.

The bill by Baucus, chairman of the Finance Committee, would make major changes to the nation&#8217;s $2.5 trillion health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health interests donate $11 million to senators crafting health overhaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Fram</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sen. Max Baucus, a leader in the troubled effort in Congress to write a health care overhaul bill, has received more campaign donations from the health industry than any elected federal official except President Barack Obama and three other senators.

The Montana Democrat is enjoying this largesse — some $3.9 million in contributions from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Finance chairman proposes fee on insurance companies in post-recess health care plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Margasak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sen. Max Baucus on Monday pushed a new health care plan including an industry fee to help pay for covering the uninsured as President Barack Obama said insurance companies must share accountability for the troubled system.

The Finance Committee is the last best hope for a bipartisan bill since four of five congressional committees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans cross partisan divide and join Democrats in mourning loss of Sen. Kennedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was a Democrat&#8217;s Democrat, so much so that he became a rallying point for those in his party and an object of derision for Republican opponents.

Yet his affability and capability to span the partisan divide on an array of legislative matters prompted an outpouring of condolences from those in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a polarized debate, industry-consumer coalition calls for compromise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — It&#8217;s tough to find much compromise in this summer&#8217;s health care free-for-all. But at least someone is saying thanks for trying.

The drug industry and a consumer advocacy group on Tuesday launched a $3.5 million ad campaign in the home states of 15 senators to thank them for being willing to work across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Yes We Can&#8217; vs. &#8216;Tell Washington No&#8217;: Public passions seen rising on health care overhaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Hefling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Booed, jeered and occasionally cheered in a raucous session with the public, a Democratic senator said Monday that other lawmakers can expect the same as they face voters on the divisive issue of overhauling health care.

&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if that&#8217;s the harbinger of things to come,&#8221; Pennsylvania&#8217;s Sen. Arlen Specter said a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In step forward, House committee prepares to take final action on health care overhaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Democrats on a key House committee said Friday they have patched up their differences on a health care overhaul, and went back to work confident they can advance the complex legislation.

&#8220;We have agreed we need to pull together,&#8221; said Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. Liberals, moderates, and conservatives negotiated late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First House votes on health care bills as Obama steps up campaign for overhaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Health care legislation would raise costs, not lower them, Congress&#8217; top budget cruncher said Thursday, complicating President Barack Obama&#8217;s push to overhaul the system.

Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf warned lawmakers based on calculations of the various bills in the House and Senate. Elmendorf was asked by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Democrats look to medical providers, employers and the wealthy for health care dollars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders, pledging to meet the president&#8217;s goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House and Democratic leaders seek momentum for health care overhaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Espo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leaders rebelled Tuesday against a proposed tax on health insurance benefits, raising fresh doubts about the prospects for bipartisan legislation on President Barack Obama&#8217;s top domestic priority.

The discontent surfaced as the White House and Vice President Joe Biden readied a triumphant announcement for Wednesday that the nation&#8217;s hospitals had agreed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Details on health care legislation taking shape in Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Health care legislation is taking shape in both the House and Senate. Details are still being negotiated and any final bill would have to meld proposals from both houses. A look at various proposals:

The Senate Finance Committee&#8217;s bill, approved by the panel Tuesday:
WHO&#8217;S COVERED: An estimated 94 percent of Americans. Illegal immigrants would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Roll Call: How the Senate voted on &#8216;cash for clunkers&#8217; program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The 60-36 roll call by which the Senate on Thursday voted to support a &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; program that would offer government incentives to consumers who trade in vehicles that get poor gas mileage.

On this vote, a &#8220;yes&#8221; vote was a vote for the program and a &#8220;no&#8221; vote was a vote against it. Supporters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Democrats press head on health care bill; first big test comes in committee votes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Eye-popping new cost estimates for President Barack Obama&#8217;s plan to overhaul the U.S. health care system are forcing majority Democrats to scale back their plans to subsidize coverage for the uninsured.

The $1 trillion-plus estimates came ahead of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee&#8217;s scheduled meeting Wednesday to begin work on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax on health benefits in Senate bill may be delayed until 2013 to avoid political fallout</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Espo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Legislation to be outlined next week in the Senate Finance Committee will likely include a new tax on workers with the costliest employer-provided health coverage, officials said Friday, but with implementation delayed until 2013 to minimize any political fallout.

Officials familiar with internal deliberations said the leading option under consideration by Sen. Max Baucus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key senator: Limiting tax-free health benefits would help drive down health care costs</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/key-senator-limiting-tax-free-health-benefits-would-help-drive-down-health-care-costs-69874/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A Senate chairman who has a major role in writing health care legislation said Tuesday he hopes to convince President Barack Obama that taxing some employer-provided benefits will help control escalating costs.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., may face a hard sell. During his campaign for president, Obama opposed taxing health benefits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care options focus on paying hospitals and doctors for quality, not quantity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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Senators on the Finance Committee will meet behind closed doors to review policy options aimed at making medical providers more accountable for the [...]]]></description>
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