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Mandated health care hurts students (Technician)
The Facts: A new Board of Governors policy will require uninsured students to pay for state-provided health care next year. The cost of the plan is $765.
read moreHouse Dems Put America onHold To Push Health Care (Fox News)
Democrats cancel all hearings on Capitol Hill in anticipation of health care reform negotiations • White House Pitches Talking Points to House Dems • Pro-Life Dems: Senate Health Bill DOA • YOU DECIDE: Is Health Care Reform Doomed? • RAW DATA: Dems Who Could Pull the Plug on Reform • FOX FORUM: Media Still Falling for Obama's Deadlines
read moreDemocrats Cancel All Hearings in Anticipation of Health Care Negotiations (Fox News)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered committee chairmen to postpone their hearings Thursday so lawmakers can meet to chart a course for one last sales job on President Obama's signature health care overhaul.
read moreHealth-care reform's 'back-door' tax (CNN Money)
The big talk on Capital Hill may be about health-care reform, but as part of this massive undertaking, the Democrats are quietly reshaping the tax system too. Tucked inside President Obama's latest health-care proposal is a major change to the Medicare tax.
read morePelosi: Dems close on health care agreement (AP via Yahoo! News)
Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them off stride.
read moreMich. lawmaker threatening to derail health care (AP via Yahoo! News)
Rep. Bart Stupak has become the unofficial leader of a small but powerful bloc threatening to derail President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
read moreHealth Care Horse Trading Heats Up Ahead Of Vote (CBS 3 Philadelphia)
A final agreement nearly in hand, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are about to embark on one last sales job that will determine the outcome of the president's signature health care overhaul.
read moreLocal Leaders React To Health Care Job Cuts (WLKY Louisville)
City and state leaders reacted Wednesday to the news of a new round of health care layoffs in Louisville.
read moreIn St. Louis area, Obama pounds drum for health-care initiative (Washington Post)
ST. CHARLES, MO. -- President Obama made an impassioned case Wednesday for his health-care proposal, delivering a folksy, partisan argument for reform as industry groups prepare a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to defeat it.
read moreTrust Time: Health Care Hinges on Rare Commodity (ABC News)
Your final, final, final push on health care comes down to trust: Does the House trust the Senate? House - United States Senate - Health - Health care - United States
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Our National Guard: Paying The Price In IraqPresident George Bush has just over six months left in office, but his Iraq deployment policies continue to put an incredible strain on not only our active-duty Armed Forces, but, with our military stretched so thin, the administration has continued to deploy tens of thousands of our troops from the National Guard -- at levels our country has not experienced since World War II.
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The emerging college affordability crisis threatens to derail the American Dream for millions of young people who either cannot afford to attend college or who are saddled with crippling debt that prevents them from furthering their education, starting a family or buying a home. This emerging crisis has not been a prominent part of the national debate, despite its long-term threat to the future of our country.
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America’s Long-Term Military Capability May Be Threatened by Iraq StrategyAmerica's ability to defend itself and, if necessary, fight a conventional war may be eroding because of military strategies in Iraq, according to a West Point historian who served two combat tours in Iraq. According to Lt. Colonel Gian Gentile, a West Point history professor who served in Iraq as an executive officer of a combat brigade in Tikrit and as commander of a battalion northwest of Baghdad, the over-emphasis on counterinsurgency as a "solution to every problem" is contributing to America "losing the ability to wage any other kind of war." After eight years of decline in military readiness, the United States can no longer afford to ignore the informed patriotism of Col. Gentile and others who speak out on America's national security needs in the 21st Century.