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...clear that our health-care system needs improvement, but many average Americans do not trust the government to do the job. A large part of the reason may be that what Congress designs for us is guaranteed to be, as with Social Security and retirement plans, vastly inferior to what they create for--and bestow upon--themselves. Kenneth Solnit, CUPERTINO, CALIF...
Health-insurance companies have been spending $1.5 million a day to convince Congress that a public option should not be part of health-care reform. And that is only the money that is being spent on lobbying. Millions more is spent on advertising. Where does that money come from? It comes from our premiums. Every million dollars spent to destroy the public option and to mold health-care legislation so that it favors insurance companies is a million dollars that is not being spent on patients. Karen Wagner ROLLING MEADOWS...
...MILITARY 42% WHITE HOUSE 14% CONGRESS...
...High The Pentagon asked for four new executive jets for the Air Force's 89th Airlift Wing. Congress added four more...
...Washington on private jets to seek government bailouts. Supporters of the proposal argued that the jets were necessary replacements for aging aircraft and would be less costly to fly, and noted that such planes--used to fly generals and White House officials around the globe--would carry members of Congress only about 14% of the time...