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		<title>Details on the costs of the Senate Finance Committee chairman&#8217;s health care bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rundown of the new spending in Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus&#8217; health care overhaul bill, and a look at how it&#8217;s paid for. The numbers are 10-year totals covering 2010-2019. Baucus pegs the overall cost of his plan at $856 billion over a decade; the Congressional Budget Office puts it at $774 billion. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baucus&#8217; health care plan marks pivotal moment in debate _ but no GOP support for compromise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — His calls for compromise rebuffed by Republicans, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee unveiled sweeping legislation Wednesday to remake the nation&#8217;s costly health care system largely along the lines outlined by President Barack Obama.

Sen. Max Baucus&#8217; proposal, months in the making, drew quick criticism from liberals who said his vision was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts propose hefty sales tax to sweetened beverages; health reformers not buying it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stobbe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — In a bid to ramp up the public health battle against obesity, a group of nutrition and economics experts are pushing for a tax of 1 cent on every of ounce of sodas and other sweetened beverages.

Proposals for a hefty soda tax though have repeatedly fallen flat. The idea was even floated as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House calls new Senate Finance health plan a &#8216;building block&#8217;, not the end of debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The White House says a health care reform bill from a key Senate committee is &#8220;an important building block&#8221; in getting closer to comprehensive health care reform.

Sen. Max Baucus released the long-awaited version of the bill from his Senate Finance committee Wednesday. The bill appears to have no Republican support.
White House spokesman Robert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Grassley hopeful less-sweeping health care reform with no public option can be negotiated</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley said Monday he remains hopeful a limited health care reform measure can be negotiated but a small group working on the issue agrees a government-run public option won&#8217;t be part of a package.

Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is among a bipartisan group [...]]]></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>Proposed tax on &#8216;gold-plated&#8217; health coverage may hit plans for older, sicker people</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — They call them Cadillac health plans. But a clunker may be hiding behind the sticker price.

Senators scrambling to pay for a $1 trillion health care overhaul are leaning toward taxing health insurance companies on policies costing more than $25,000 a year — about twice the value of the average employer-provided family plan.
But some [...]]]></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>
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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>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>
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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>Devil in the details: 4 big issues that could break a deal on health care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Four divisive issues could dash President Barack Obama&#8217;s hopes of overhauling health care: cost, creating a government-run plan, taxing workers&#8217; benefits and penalizing employers that don&#8217;t offer coverage.

These are potential deal-breakers as Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress work to revamp the system to cover the nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and try to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigators: Washington-area signal system didn&#8217;t recognize test train at fatal crash site</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/investigators-washington-area-signal-system-didnt-recognize-test-train-at-fatal-crash-site-92432/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nafeesa Syeed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The signaling system for the Washington-area transit agency failed to detect a test train stopped in the same place as one that was struck during a deadly crash this week, federal investigators said Thursday.

The National Transportation Safety Board&#8217;s test results indicate the oncoming train involved in Monday&#8217;s crash that killed nine could have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senators get to work on health care bill, but speechmaking and disputes overshadow progress</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/senators-get-to-work-on-health-care-bill-but-speechmaking-and-disputes-overshadow-progress-85357/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Werner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Delays and disputes bogged down a Senate panel considering the details of remaking the nation&#8217;s $2.5 trillion health care system.

The first formal drafting and voting session on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy&#8217;s sweeping legislation was given over Wednesday to six hours of speechmaking by senators. Nothing was accomplished on the bill itself, and there [...]]]></description>
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