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...shied away from a heated debate. Jason Q. Berkenfeld ’11 welcomed engagement on the bill, calling the health care debate “the fight of our generation...
ARRA, or the stimulus bill, provided the National Institute of Health (NIH) with $10.4 billion to fund two-year research projects and Harvard has been granted funding for 65 research proposals, the majority of which deal with health care and medical research...
...collapse of Lehman Brothers. But according to a senior aide, Obama overruled them. "The President has a big megaphone, and he intends to use that megaphone," senior adviser David Axelrod told ABC News of the decision to go ahead on Sept. 9, 16 years to the month after Bill Clinton tried to do the same thing. (White House officials downplay any Clinton comparison and point out that they are far closer now to the goal line than Clinton was - or, for that matter, than any Democratic President has ever been. The bill has already passed three committees in the House...
...health insurance through their employers; those not covered by an expanded Medicaid system would be required, for the first time, to purchase health coverage on their own. The subsidies in Baucus' current proposal are significantly more generous than those proposed under earlier versions of the bill that were circulating in July...
...other areas, however, Baucus appears to be holding out desperate hope for additional GOP support. For instance, the Baucus bill does not - at this point, at least - contain Snowe's proposal for a public plan as a backstop; instead, it would create member-run co-ops as an alternative to private health insurance. His bill also would not mandate that employers provide health coverage to their workers, but would require them to reimburse the Federal Government for the cost of the subsidies it provides their employees to purchase health coverage on their own. One source said that Baucus intends...