Word: hill
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...result these problems are more frequent than you'd like." Although currently there is no law requiring the government to take the lowest bidder - though there is draft legislation to make it so - bureaucrats tend to favor the low bids so as to avoid being called up to Capitol Hill to justify their decisions...
...that the House might move to pass a bill without a public plan. When asked if legislation without such a feature could pass the House, Hoyer hedged. "I think the public option is a very good choice for consumers to have," he told reporters in his first-floor Capitol Hill offices. "On the other hand, I have said that I hope to move a bill forward that can garner majority support." Even progressives, more than 50 of whom had signed a pledge before the recess not to vote for any bill that did not include a public plan, have shown...
...that provides coverage for catastrophic illness but kicks in only after the policyholder spends thousands of dollars out of pocket first. In other words, it's an insurance-industry-friendly model that companies like Cigna would like to see spread under health-reform legislation still being written on Capitol Hill. Potter, in his newfound life as a health-insurance-industry critic, opposes this. "If you make $30,000 and you're the sole breadwinner, this is putting you in trouble if you get sick," he says calmly...
...tightened its grip on power. In 2010, the regime promises another nationwide ballot, but few expect clean elections. Particularly concerned are members of Burma's 100-plus ethnic minorities, who fear that their already limited autonomy will be erased by the polls. Fighting between the state army and a hill tribe in northern Burma erupted last month, and the monks of Sittwe themselves are from the Arakan minority that chafes against ethnic Burmese rule...
China's border with Burma is a porous demarcation, with everything from tropical timber and rubies to heroin slipping across with little oversight. But August brought a more unusual Burmese import: thousands of Kokang hill-tribe members fleeing violence in their small enclave in Burma's northeastern Shan state. By late August, the U.N. estimated that some 30,000 refugees had poured across the border into China's Yunnan province, as the Burmese military routed a small rebel force that had laid down its arms for two decades before a cease-fire crumbled in early August...