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...choose from, all of them offering at least a minimum package of benefits and a guarantee against exclusion for pre-existing health conditions. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has even gone so far as to suggest that a public plan might be necessary only as a backup, if that new system failed to produce the kind of competition that is necessary to bring down health-care costs. (See a multimedia story about health care for the uninsured...
...President will have some rhetorical backup. The White House announced that a number of Montanans will appear with the President to bear witness to how they have been harmed by insurance companies' raising prices while they were under treatment for serious illnesses. (Read "Ezekiel Emanuel, Obama's 'Deadly Doctor,' Strikes Back...
...government plan that some critics say couldn't possibly compete effectively the way a public option could. The legislation includes provisions for a public plan, but such an approach would be triggered only if the co-op plan doesn't prove to work in certain states or locales - a backup model based on President George W. Bush's Medicare Prescription Drug Plan. Many wonder if that will garner enough votes in the Senate, since it will most likely lose votes from both ends of the spectrum...
...Cheney fought some of these initiatives all the way, "taking it upon himself," as a top adviser put it, to make the hard-line national-security case to the President. Cheney didn't lose every fight, but he was no longer winning them all either. And his backup vanished. Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz moved to the World Bank in early 2005. Libby was indicted in October of that year and left the government. John Bolton resigned his post as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. the same month Rumsfeld left the Pentagon in 2006. Cheney's allies no longer manned...
Sheryl Crow, Singer-songwriter and former Jackson backup singer "I'll Be There" His sweet young voice had the understanding that made you believe he knew what he was singing about...