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Senior House Democrats drafting health care legislation are considering slapping an unspecified financial penalty on anyone who refuses to purchase "affordable" health insurance, a key committee chairman said

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MyWay AP

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senior House Democrats drafting health care legislation are considering slapping an unspecified financial penalty on anyone who refuses to purchase affordable health insurance, a key committee chairman said Monday.
 
In addition, officials said Democrats are considering a new tax on certain health insurance benefits as one of numerous options to help pay for expanding coverage to the uninsured. No details on the tax were immediately available, and no final decisions were expected until next week at the earliest.
 
These officials said drafters of the legislation will include a government-run insurance option as well as plans offered by private companies. The government option draws near-unanimous opposition from Republicans and provokes concerns among many Democrats, as well, although President Barack Obama has spoken out in favor of it.
 
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Bloomberg.com

June 7 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama wants Congress to consider taxing the wealthy instead of workers to pay for a health-care overhaul, as House Democrats discuss a plan to require health insurance for most Americans.

The Obama administration stepped up efforts to influence health-care legislation today as advisers David Axelrod and Austan Goolsbee appeared on televisi

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New Orleans Metro Real-Time News

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, his wife, Seletha, and a member of the mayor's entourage were being held in quarantine at a hotel in Shanghai after a passenger on Nagin's flight to China came down with suspected swine flu symptoms, a city spokeswoman said Sunday

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Desert News

The White House, backing away from President Barack Obama's "it's-all-on-the-table" approach initially advocated, prepared to get louder and more involved in the details of a health care overhaul that officials once were content to leave to Congress, administration officials said Saturday

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Politico

There would be a "soft” mandate on individuals to purchase insurance, with a waiver for those who can’t afford it and a “moderate” tax penalty on those who skirt the requirement.

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Cato Institute

Three years ago, Mass. governor Mitt Romney signed into law one of the most far-reaching experiments promising to reduce health care costs. In reality, however, insurance premiums rose by 7.4%in 2007, 8-12% in 2008, and are expected to rise 9 percent this year.

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About a thousand people marched in an organized event in Seattle on May 30, 2009, to promote socialized healthcare. Nearly 400 regular citizens turned up, many with homemade signs to protest socialized healthcare.

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Natural News

Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) received at least $29 million from his share of royalties for Merck’s Rotateq vaccine after using his position with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ensure that childhood vaccination with the vaccine became compulsory.

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Reuters

Democratic plans for revamping U.S. healthcare are taking shape, with Senator Edward Kennedy soon to announce a proposal which could form the core of the nation's new health system. Kennedy will include both a new government program to provide medical coverage for all as well as a mandate that every American acquire some form of health insurance.

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Bill Sardi - Knowledge of Health

The race to provide every American with health insurance is leading to a medicine chest that is bare. The Administration in Washington has fashioned an unproven plan to improve the efficiency, coordination, convenience, accessibility and affordabilit

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AP

First, it was a ban on artery-clogging trans fats. Then calories were posted on menus. Now the New York City health department is taking on salt. City officials are meeting with food makers and restaurants to discuss reducing the amount of salt in co

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AP

During her confirmation hearing, Sebelius avoided endorsing a plan to make people legally responsible for seeing that they're insured. The concept of how, or whether, universal coverage would be mandated is just one of the thorny issues to be dea

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by John Nichols, State Of Change, The Nation

While the one reform that could cure what ails America's health care system has attracted plenty of adherents in the House -- 72 members have signed on as backers of House Judiciary Committee chair John Conyers' single-payer proposal and othe

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AP

Majority Leader Reid indicated he's willing to move sweeping health care legislation through the Senate with a procedural maneuver that would block a filibuster. The prospect has ignited Republicans' ire, and key Democratic chairmen don't

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