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FACTBOX-Health care plans of presidential candidates (AlertNet)

Source: Reuters Oct 21 (Reuters) - With 47 million people in the United States without health insurance, the U.S. presidential candidates' plans to close that gap are coming under scrutiny by voters before the ...

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Public subsidy to save health care (The Record)

AS THE United States prepares for the next great debate on its ailing health care system, support is growing for a shift from the traditional employer-based financing to publicly subsidized individual health insurance.

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Health insurance veto stands (Contra Costa Times)

By Jonathan Weisman and Christopher Lee WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON -- House Democrats on Wednesday fell 13 votes short in trying to overturn President Bush's veto of a $35 billion expansion of the government children's health insurance plan, prompting calls for new negotiations to decide

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Health care hero or villain? (Portsmouth Herald)

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — For most of the American public, Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt is best defined by his role defending President Bush's controversial veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

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Health centers to expand care with federal dollars (Sun-Sentinel)

Millions of federal dollars, largely untouched, could flow into Palm Beach County through a network of health centers offering primary care to thousands who lack insurance and skip crucial check-ups.

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Bush veto on health care for children questioned (West Side Leader)

No one should be deceived in thinking that President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Program (SCHIP) expansion bill has much to do with fiscal prudence. The president would have vetoed the expansion even if the United States were facing a budget surplus rather than huge deficits.

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Signs Payment Agreements with Guam Health Insurance Companies (Newswise)

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles announced it has signed direct payment agreements with three of the leading health insurance companies in Guam.

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Political leaders battle over health care plan (Granite City Press-Record)

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) came to Collinsville Friday to urge U.S. Rep. John Shimkus (R-Collinsville) to reconsider his vote against increasing funding for a federal children's health insurance program.

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Official: Health care a fundamental right (The Post-Standard)

One of the architects of former President Clinton's failed health reform effort of the 1990s said Friday she's glad to see the renewed interest in universal health insurance coverage among the presidential candidates.

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In New Hampshire, health care sways elderly votes (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Derry boasts the hallmarks of a classic New Hampshire town -- white-steepled churches, fading red-brick textile mills and autumn foliage that's exploding in brilliant reds and yellows.

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FACTBOX-Health care plans of presidential candidates (AlertNet)

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