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Sources: Senators weigh 3 government health plans (AP)

Sources: Senators weigh 3 government health plans

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 09, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(AP) -- Senators are considering three different designs for a new government health insurance plan that middle-income Americans could buy into for the first time, congressional officials said Friday. Officials ...





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Americans remain divided on government involvement in health insurance: survey

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Researchers from Indiana University's Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research (CHPPR) have found that support for government-sponsored health insurance for individuals under age 65 remains virtually the same ...


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Los Angeles OKs plan to use Google Web services

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created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The Los Angeles City Council has tentatively approved a multimillion-dollar proposal to tap Google Inc. for government e-mail and other Internet services.


Australia dismissed as "baseless" claims it was proposing a China-style plan for mandatory filtering of the internet

Australia defends controversial web filter

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created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Australia on Wednesday dismissed as "baseless" claims it was proposing a China-style plan for mandatory filtering of the internet and denied the system could be abused to silence free speech.


House Democrats considering insurance tax (AP)

House Democrats considering insurance tax

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created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- House Democrats are considering an insurance tax to help pay for their health care overhaul plan, even though such a funding scheme is bitterly opposed by labor unions that are among the party's most ...


Report: Great Lakes toxic cleanups lagging badly

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created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A federal report says the government is moving so slowly to clean up the most polluted sites in the Great Lakes that it will take 77 more years to finish the job at the current pace.


Iraq to impose controls on Internet (AP)

Iraq to impose controls on Internet

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created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The Iraqi government has decided to crack down on Internet service providers and ban sites that incite violence or carry pornography, officials said Tuesday, a move that has been strongly criticized ...


PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in China (AP)

PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in China

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created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.


Medicare buy-in plan runs into Senate resistance (AP)

Medicare buy-in plan runs into Senate resistance

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created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A plan to let people as young as 55 buy into Medicare, heralded as a breakthrough in the Senate's health care debate, ran into resistance Sunday from lawmakers who can make or break Democrats' efforts ...


'Public option' becomes central to health debate (AP)

'Public option' becomes central to health debate

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created Aug 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 13

(AP) -- The idea of a government medical plan to compete with private insurance has become a litmus test in the health care debate. It could easily have been nothing more than a forgotten proposal gathering ...


Gov't recommends child care plan if swine flu hits

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created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The government is urging parents to have a backup plan for caring for their kids in case they are hit by swine flu once the new school year begins.



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