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...segments are at risk if they lose their jobs? That's one way to explain the difference. The other way to explain it is that the other finding didn't apply to the overall population - it just applied to the elderly, who for a variety of reasons, including improved care, appear to thrive during a downturn. The aggregate may be driven by these elderly, who aren't in the labor market and aren't affected by changes in earnings...
...weaving together five separate pieces of legislation - two distinct Senate bills and three from the House. They must both satisfy the competing (and often conflicting) political and ideological interests within their party, and still produce a coherent bill that does not do more harm than good to a health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of the economy. (See pictures of the angry health-care debates...
...such as whether to proceed to the bill. The House has not announced whether it will begin deliberations at the same time or shortly thereafter. House leaders are anxious to see how things are going in the Senate before they begin their own debate. (See the top 10 health-care-reform players...
...opening for Republican Senator Olympia Snowe - who is the only Republican still considering a yes vote on the health bill - to come in with her so-called trigger proposal to create a public plan as a fallback if private insurance companies do not do enough to bring down health-care costs. Snowe refrained from offering that amendment in the Finance Committee, in hopes of having a better shot on the Senate floor...
...health-care-reform fight...