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...daunting is the prospect of passing a bill that fits the confines of a pay-as-you-go budget that a coalition of 30 organizations pushing for health-care reform - including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, organized labor, the drug lobby, AARP and organizations representing hospitals, doctors and patients - wrote a letter in March asking lawmakers to suspend the rule with respect to health-care reform. But officials at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue say that would be political suicide at a time of record deficits - and a guarantee that Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats would not support the plan...
...where will lawmakers find the money? President Obama proposed a $634 billion "reserve fund," paid for by higher taxes on the wealthy, but even if that passes, experts say it won't be enough to cover even half the cost of comprehensive health-care reform over the next 10 years. Hospitals and doctors are also bracing for what they expect will be efforts to cut the reimbursements they get for treating patients under Medicare and Medicaid. (See an illustrated time line of Obama's first 100 days in office...
...biggest ways to raise money to pay for health-care reform is also the most politically delicate: taxing employer-provided health benefits. It's an idea that Obama criticized when his opponent John McCain proposed it during last year's presidential campaign, but one that his top White House advisers now say should remain on the table. And it is an approach that Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus says he is considering...
...Such choices get to the real truth behind the cold hard numbers of health-care reform. Every one of them is a political calculation, one that pits one constituency against another. Can lawmakers really balance the books on health-care reform? "You can do it," says former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, a leading voice in the health-care-reform effort. "It's just a matter of how much pain you want to endure...
...Galdikas set up the Camp Leakey rehabilitation center in southern Borneo's Tanjung Putting National Park. To date, the camp has rehabilitated more than 350 orangutans, helping orphaned former pets successfully return to the wild. It also continues to care for another 300 juveniles. To help raise money for its work - and for the charity over which Galdikas presides, Orangutan Foundation International, www.orangutan.org - Camp Leakey is open to visitors, who are encouraged to "adopt" a young orangutan by contributing towards its keep. (See 10 things to do in Washington, D.C.: National...