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...trying to, through this administration and many of the initiatives that we've taking on, in addition to national service - like the President said, the garden is about that individual power; that at the end - we need strong health care reform measures, we need government to act - but how we teach and how we feed our children is a very individual power. But you have to be informed, you have to have choices, you have to have access to food...
...Took no rhetorical line or new position that will scare off the private sector health-care industries, which have been at the table supporting reform...
...Even President Obama, who had just dismissed conservative claims that illegal immigrants would be able to take advantage of health-care reform, was taken aback. He looked to his left, adjusted his arm, part nervous twitch, part macho posturing, and shot back at Wilson, "That's not true." And there, for a moment, the nation watched two men, elected to lead, call each other the worst thing in politics - dishonorable deceivers. (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...President's seemingly simple statement that "the reforms I am proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally" is not hard to check. In the Senate Finance Committee's working framework for a health plan, which Obama's speech seemed most to mimic, there is the line, "No illegal immigrants will benefit from the health care tax credits." Similarly, the major health-care-reform bill to pass out of committee in the House, H.R. 3200, contains Section 246, which is called "NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS." Some Republicans have claimed that these protections are too weak, since...
...players in health-care reform...