Obama White House: Health care today, unemployment next week
USA Today
Health care is dominating White House attention today, but odds are a week from now it will shift back to another familiar issue. The US Labor Department issues the nation’s unemployment rate on the first Friday of each month, and next week brings …

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Obama stands firm on health care overhaul
MarketWatch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — President Obama used his weekly address Saturday to reiterate support for attempts to overhaul the US health-care system. The remarks came at the end of a week that saw Obama unveil his blueprint for …

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Speaking of the new Obama budget Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sibleius focused, in part, on prevention and a switch from sick care to real health care.
“To help more Americans live healthy lifestyles, our budget continues the work of rebuilding our public health infrastructure. What we have today is a [...]

In news that clearly shows where the big health insurance firms stand on any health care reform, according to a report in the National Journal online edition, six large health insurers secretly funded television ads attacking health care reform. Insiders say something between $10 million and $20 million, came from Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Kaiser [...]

House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.

Here is the trascript of President Obama’s address regarding health care to the United States Congress:
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Madam Speaker, Vice President Biden, members of Congress, and the American people:
When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit [...]

No mater your political view point, we believe that it is important to really know what is in the health care bill. Below you will find a link to the actual bill DIRECT from the House of Representatives website:
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Health care reform ‘myths’ and truths laid out
BY James Gordon Meek and Thomas M. Defrank
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