Congress faces final talks on Obama health care overhaul
Washington remains focused on who gets subsidized coverage and who pays as House and Senate negotiators seek to reconcile differences. The plan promises gradual expansion of coverage with subsidies, an insurance exchange, and taxes to fund Medicare cuts, while lawmakers weigh penny‑pinching changes before the State of the Union.
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Health care reform contrasts under different parties and plans
The plan differences cover funding shifts from cuts to Medicare and Medicaid to new taxes on high earners and insurers. It debates a government run option, abortion funding restrictions, penalties for noncompliance, and a public plan via exchanges versus Senate positions.
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GOP lawmakers flip stance on costly health plans
Democrats criticize GOP hypocrisy after Republicans who backed a 2003 Medicare prescription drug expansion that added hundreds of billions to the deficit now oppose the current Obama backed health overhaul. Senators Hatch Snowe Voinovich defend past votes as context for today’s package.
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