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China has long way to go on health reforms
Beijing - Chinese authorities released a long-awaited health reform action plan...
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Health Insurance Unaffordable in the US for 1.6 M People in 2007/2008
When it comes to health insurance things don’t look very good for Americans. According to a...
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Intel and GE team up on telemedicine
New York - Going to the doctor could become a thing of the past for many people if the telemedicine...
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Walgreen To Provide Free Care For Unemployed
Walgreen Co., the nation’s largest drugstore chain, and its Take Care Health Systems...
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Hurricane Katrina Tied to Dramatic Increase in Heart Attacks
Tulane University research has shown that Hurricane Katrina has contributed to a dramatic rise in...
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Blacks at Higher Risk of Heart Failure than Whites
According to one of the first long-term studies to look at heart failure in younger adults,...
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Survey Ranks States Depending on Wellness
A survey focusing on the wellbeing of the American citizens gave marks to regions and states of the...
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Obama nominates Sebelius as US health secretary
Washington - US President Barack Obama nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as health...
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Humana On Medicare Rate Calculations
Humana Inc is "closely analyzing" all aspects of the planned fiscal 2010 payment rates...
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Cigarette Tax May Save Some Lives
The new federal law represents a great winning ticket for the health advocates because a bigger...
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Stimulus Bill, Health Care Reform, Crucial Issues on Obama’s Agenda
Health care reform and the controversial stimulus bill continue to be crucial issues on...
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IBM Helps Google In An Effort To Put Personal Health Data Online
It looks like Google and IBM will team up in order to help get personal health data online, as the...
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Delphi Seeks to Cut Health Benefits for Retirees
Auto supplier Delphi Corp. has sought U.S. Bankruptcy Court permission to eliminate health care...
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Most Cancer Patients Can’t Afford Medical Care
According to a report released February 5 by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the American Cancer...
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Most Children Take Vitamins, But They Don’t Really Need Them
According to a newly released study, most children who take vitamins don’t really need them....
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Senate Approves Health Bill for Children
The Senate on Thursday approved the bill designed to provide health insurance to more than...
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Medicare Decides to Expand Coverage for Cancer Drugs
Doctors and patients who need Medicare reimbursement for certain experimental treatments...
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Recent Studies Should Discourage Smokers
Recent studies show quite some interesting things about smokers and smoking. A West Virginia...
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China’s Government Plans to Spend $124 Billion on Health Care Reform
China’s government announced the decision to spend more than $120 billion over the next...
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UnitedHealth Group Agrees to Pay $350 Million in Health Care “Fraud”
UnitedHealth Group announced on Thursday its decision to pay a record $350...
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House Passes Bill to Expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program
The bill that would extend coverage for four million uninsured children is one of the top...
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Child Health Plan Backed Up By Senate
The large majority of Americans get their health insurance from their work place, those who are...
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The Senate to Vote on Extra Health Coverage for Poor Children
The House on Wednesday voted to expand The Children’s Health Insurance Program to cover an...
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UnitedHealth Settlement Resolves Litigations with Health Plan Members, Healthcare Providers
UnitedHealth Group Inc., which on Tuesday agreed to pay $50 million to establish a new database...
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Children’s Health Program Goes to Senate for Approval
The bill intended to expand healthcare for children in low-income families is expected to breeze...
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Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Peanut Butter
The outburst of salmonella that affected approximately 410 people in 43 states, and is believed to...
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WellPoint Suspends Enrollment Of New Members In Medicare Health Plans
WellPoint, parent company to Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin, and one of the largest...
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UnitedHealth Agrees to Update Its Database
Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group Inc. on Tuesday agreed to pay $50 million to establish a new...
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UnitedHealth Reached A Hefty Agreement With New York Attorney General
UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer, resolved a conflict-of-interest...
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Report: COBRA Too Expensive for Many Unemployed
According to a report released by Families USA, the national organization for health care...
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Sebelius confirmed as US health secretary amid swine-flu scare
Washington - Kathleen Sebelius was approved by the US Senate as health secretary Tuesday,...
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House approves new controls on tobacco in United States
Washington - The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved tougher anti-smoking controls in...
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Obama to nominate new health secretary
Washington - US President Barack Obama will nominate Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as health...
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PCA Fills for Bankruptcy Protection
Peanut Corporation of America has already filed for bankruptcy protection and will soon begin to...
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Expansion of Health Care for Children Signed into Law
Four million more children in the United States will have their health insurance covered thanks...
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Obama Expands Child Health Care Coverage to 11 Million
President Barack Obama signed Wednesday a bill to expand publicly funded health care for children...
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House Expected To Approve Children’s Health Bill Today
The House on Wednesday is expected to approve the expansion of the State Children’s Health...
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Senate Approves Health Bill For Children
The Senate on Thursday approved the bill designed to provide health insurance to more than...
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Legal Immigrant’s Children in Louisiana to Be Covered by SCHIP
Lawmakers in Louisiana consider revising the state’s health insurance program for children...
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Salmonella Outburst Linked To Peanut Butter
The outburst of salmonella that affected approximately 410 people in 43 states, and is believed to...
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Hawaiian Unemployed People Can’t Afford Health Insurance
Health insurance has a become a big issue as more and more people are laid off due to the financial...
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Barack Obama’s Health Reform Gets Vote Of Confidence
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Obama’s Health Care System Reform Plans Draw Mixed Reaction
President-elect Barack Obama’s plans of reforming the U.S. health care system passed an...
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Blue Shield Agrees To Reimburse
Blue Shield has been involved in a controversy recently, regarding medical coverage in an already...
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Obama’s Health Care Reform May Not Work
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Obama Lends an Ear to Americans' Health Care Issues
Monday, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Barack Obama’s nominee as health and human...
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Obama Names Tom Daschle As Health Care Leader
President-elect Barack Obama reasserted his pledge to overhaul the nation's healthcare system when...
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Hillary Clinton - from rival to Obama's top US diplomat
Washington - She was Barack Obama's chief challenger in the dramatic two-year neck-and-neck race...
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U.S. Government Paying For Unapproved Drugs
Analysis of federal data conducted by the Associated Press has
revealed that the United States...
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It’s Time You Chose Your Part D Plan
Until December 31, Medicare Part D is offering an “open-enrollment” period, meaning that seniors...
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Many Primary Care Doctors Not Satisfied with Their Work, Want to Quit
A survey released this week by the Physicians’ Foundation, a
non-profit group of state medical...
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Medicare Part D Enrollment Kicked Off
Beginning Monday,
November 17, American citizens aged 65 or older have six weeks to enroll for...
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Barack Obama’s Health-Care Reform May Help Many People
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Gay Community Marches against California’s Proposition 8
Flourishing signs and banners, some 1,000 people marched on
Saturday from the Government Center...
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Senator Max Baucus Shifts Health-Care Reforms Into High Gear
There’s no
time to wait for president-elect of the United States Barack Obama to shift
reforming...
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Hillary Clinton To Be The Next Secretary Of State?
Reports suggest US president-elect Barack Obama is considering
naming Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...
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Senator Baucus Urges Obama To Make Health-Care A Top Priority
Senator Max
Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has made public his...
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US Heart Failure Hospitalization Rate Almost Tripled Over Three Decades
A study presented Sunday at the American Heart Association
meeting in New Orleans revealed that...
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Obama To Implement the Promised Changes
Barack Obama’s electoral victory has brought many Americans to tears – but tears of joy. Most...
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Barack Obama Inherits Reform-Wanting U.S. Health-Care System
American
citizens have cast their vote. And they elected Democrat Barack Obama as their
next...
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Good News for Unemployed: Walgreens Offers Them Free Care
Have you lost you job recently? If you’re among “yes” people, then you have one...
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Octomom Is Eager To Take Her Children Home
Nadya Suleman told TV host "Dr. Phil" McGraw on Tuesday that she fears Kaiser Permanente...
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Johnson&Johnson Sued by the United States
The United States has sued the Johnson&Johnson company for marketing the heart drug...
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Senate Expected to Approve Kids' Health Insurance Program
Senators continued to debate the reauthorization of a bill to expand the State...
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The Growth Rate in Health Care Spending in US Lower
The increase in health care spending in the US was the smallest since 1998 due to the growing use...
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Everybody Is Expecting Obama’s Health Care Reform
It’s not a secret to anyone that healthcare in the U.S. is currently flawed. Healthcare...
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Obama Chooses Tom Daschle For Secretary Of Health
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Senator Tom Daschle for Secretary of Health and...
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Vermont Ranked Healthiest State, Louisiana Least Healthy
Health continues to be an important issue for the United States,
as recent studies have shown that...
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Many Physicians Would Quit
Almost 50 percent of primary-care doctors surveyed said they would seriously think about working in...
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3,800 UTMB Workers to Lose Their Job
Some US
institutions have not been able to catch up with things after the Hurricane
Ike. One of...
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Barack Obama’s Health-Care Reform May Help Many
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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March Of Dimes Gives U.S. A “D” In Terms Of Premature Birth
In an assessment of premature births in each U.S. state, the
March of Dimes gave the nation a D on...
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Most States Get Ds for Preterm Birth Rate
The United
States’ high rate of premature births has earned the
state a D, according to the...
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Shocking Preterm Birth Rate In The United States
The rate of premature birth in the United States has reached an alarming 12,7 percent, although the...
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British Girl Bravely Refused Heart Transplant
Hannah Jones was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 4 years old. Chemotherapy put her into...
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Chip Giant Intel Corp. Releases New Home Medical Monitor
Intel Corp., the biggest computer chip
maker, took a big step forward into health care Monday when...
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CDC: Merck’s Rotateq Lowered Cases of Rotavirus by 80 Percent since Approval
Rotateq, the vaccine against rotavirus, has reduced the number of illnesses by at least two-thirds...
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OHSU: 9 Million Kids Have No Health Insurance Coverage in the US
While US
presidential candidates’ debate over health care is making headlines all over
the world,...
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Harvard Gene Project Posts DNA Data of 10 Volunteers Online
Hoping to give medical research a big push forward, the Harvard University Medical School made the...
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Health Insurance – A Major Problem in the US
US Census Bureau released a report this week according to which only one in six people living in...
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Update: Health Care - The Presidential Race’s Discord
Over 45 million Americans – including over 8 million
children - lack health insurance, while some...
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McCain’s Health Care Progressive Plan
Health Care for America Now gave enthusiastic approval to Democrat Barack Obama and sharply...
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Bailout Legislation Expands Mental Health Coverage
Bailout legislation approved last week by Congress and
signed by President George W. Bush, as a...
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Judges Sanction San Francisco Health Plan
A three-judge appeals panel of the United States 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled Tuesday that...
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Medical Costs Increase Strain, Studies And Policy Analysts Say
More and more United States citizens confront with a financial problem, which is the rising burden...
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Medicare Prescription Drugs Premiums to Increase
Analysis of
government data has revealed that in 2009, Medicare prescription drug-plan...
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Medicare Drug Premium Expected to Rise in 2009
Premiums for Medicare drug coverage will rise an average 24
percent for elderly and disabled...
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Mental Health Bill Gets Congress Approval
Two days
ago, legislation that requires private insurers to provide equal benefits for
mental...
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US Medicaid Children Have Their Teeth Problems Left Untreated
An analysis released Wednesday by Government Accountability
Office showed that 6.5 million US...
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Abortion Rate - The Lowest in 30 Years But Still High Among Minorities
Abortion rates in the United States appear to have
declined significantly in the past 30 years...
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Barack Obama Versus John McCain: The Health Care System Round
With the presidential
campaigns nearing the end and the elections on November 4,
2008...
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As Stock Markets Plunge, US Candidates Duel over Way Out
Washington (dpa) - As the financial crisis erodes the retirement nest eggs of millions of...
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After Years Of Effort, Mental Health Legislation Finally Passes
After 12 years of effort to pass legislation requiring insurance companies to cover mental...
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Obama To Launch Multifaceted Attack On McCain’s Health Care Plan
Barack Obama launched an attack on John McCain’s health care plan Saturday and focused its...
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Obama and McCain on U.S. Health Care
There are very few issues on which both U.S. presidential candidates agree. One of those issues is...
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US Campaign Rhetoric Shows Resurgent "Culture Wars"
San Francisco - The United States might be fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but back on home...
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Medicare Payment Error Rate Higher Than Said
The inspector general at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services denounced Medicare for...
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Hospital Executives Detained For Using Homeless People In Medical Fraud
FBI discovered an alleged fraud scheme involving federal Medicaid and state Medi-Cal health...
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Barack Obama’s Speech at the La Raza Convention
Sunday, Barack Obama spoke to about 2,000 members of the
National Council of La Raza, a Latino...
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Democrats Blame Republicans For Medicare Bill Rejection
Democrats rushed Friday to blame republican senators for voting against a Medicare bill that would...
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House Passes Bill Blocking Medicare Cut for Doctors
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed
legislation to block a July 1...
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The Health Care System Needs A Good Treatment
The health care plans in the United States
have become one of the main issues debated in the...
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Bush Signs Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was passed by
the majority in the House of...
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Gay Couple Sues Univ. For Rejecting Campus Housing Application
A gay couple has filed a suit
against the University
of Hawaii alleging the
institution has...
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Man From Illinois Killed Another To Fake His Own Death
According to authorities in northern Illinois,
a man from Lake Barrington made a great effort to...
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Consumer Rights Legend Ralph Nader in 5th Run for Presidency
Attorney and political activist Ralph Nader, 73, announced Sunday another run for the White House....
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Bush Agrees To 3 Months Extension For Children Health Program
The federal-funded health
insurance program for children has been finally given a green light,...
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Clinton Upset about Obama's "Universal" Health Care Plan
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign called yesterday morning on the Obama campaign to...
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Bush's Veto of SCHIP Expansion Blasted
President Bush's long war against health insurance for U.S. children from families which earn less...
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