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Deals cut on health bill may be at peril
Senate Democratic leaders are struggling to preserve the support of interest groups for a health-care overhaul, even as lawmakers seek to change the provisions that brought the groups on board. FULL STORY
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Breast-screening debate splits along party lines
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Will you pay more for insurance after reform?
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Divided Senate opens health care debate
Early treatment may help kids with autism
CDC: Swine flu cases may be declining
Reid: Senate to work weekends on health care
Senate set for health care debate
Records show White House health care talks
NYT: Medical debt spurs more bankruptcies
NYT: Health bill revives abortion groups
Poll: Americans conflicted over health overhaul
For Reid, Dodd, clout cuts both ways
Senate health bill targets ‘Cadillac’ plans
Schumer: Dems can go it alone on health care
Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill
Consumers’ guide to health reform
GOP blasts ‘bait and switch’ health bill
Senate girds for historic debate on health bill
Botax ? Nip/tuck levy to help fund health plan
Poll: Most support curbs on malpractice suits
CBO: Senate health plan to cost $849 billion
Uninsured ER patients twice as likely to die
Newsweek: Would House health bill boost spending?
NYT: Drug firms raise prices ahead of reform
Secretive front group battles health bill
Medicare paid $47 billion in suspect claims
Tough choices on abortion coverage
Few Americans make end-of-life wishes known
Sources: Reid eyes payroll tax rise on high earners
How would the House abortion limits work?
Bill Clinton urges passage of health care bill
GOP lawmaker feels effects of health vote
Abortion could roil Senate health care debate
Advice for Obama: Knock heads on health care
Rough road ahead for health care in Senate
Ailing ‘uninsurables’ may face long wait for care
Costs of defensive medicine spur heated debate
Ditch new drugs, take older meds to cut costs
Newsweek: Will health bill cover prayer treatments?
Majority leader: House will pass health bill
Going home: House calls to return with reform?
Reid signals timetable for health care may slip
  Mom’s death is only relief from medical debt
No guarantees: 3 tales of insurance disaster
  Making sense of health care reform
American health care: Proposals for change
How would the House abortion limits work?
Breaking down the health care proposals
No health coverage tied to 45,000 deaths a year
Newsweek: 5 biggest myths of health care reform
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NYT: Health bill revives abortion groups
Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill
CBO: Senate health plan to cost $849 billion
Advice for Obama: Knock heads on health care
Newsweek: Would House health bill boost spending?


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  Commentary
Opinion: ‘Concierge’ is another word for bribe
Fineman: Obama channels Ali in health fight
Newsweek: Understanding the Baucus health plan
Opinion: Big hole in the health care debate
Newsweek: 5 ways Obama scored in his speech
  Patient care
Q&A on health care co-ops
Doctors see benefit in end-of-life controversy
What the House bill says on end-of-life care
2 in 3 had recent test with radiation, study says
VA investigates errant notices of fatal disease
  Drugs and treatments
Prevention may save lives, but not money
More may not be better in health care
Medicare drug premiums to edge up in 2010
Lax hospitals may be fostering kidney-selling
  Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare drug premiums to edge up in 2010
Medicaid falls short just as some need it most
Seniors see savings in Medicare drug plan
Health overhaul means big Medicare changes
Proposed Medicare cuts prompt grumbles
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Health care videos
Aetna reportedly will raise prices
Dec. 4: Rachel Maddow shares a report that Aetna is planning to raise prices so high that as many as 600,000 people may have to drop their coverage.
How is health reform faring in the Senate?
Limbaugh grilled on health care beliefs
Health reform under intense negotiations
Should Senators be on the public option?
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Co-op plan
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Health IT
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Independent Medicare Advisory Board
Medicaid
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Public option
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Sin taxes
Single-payer plan
Sustainable growth rate
Tax break for employer-provided insurance
'Trigger' for public option
TRICARE
Uncompensated care

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