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Coburn, a practicing physician, disputes Blendon's analysis of his bill. "In the vast majority of cases, our credit will more than cover an employee's share of a health plan's cost, which is about a third of a plan's total cost, or $4,000," Coburn says. The plan would also aim to move people off of medicaid, giving low-income Americans subisidies to purchase their own coverage. "The people who will benefit the most are the people who need help the most - low-income families and the unemployed. If you don't have...
...Senate. But in the end, they delivered for President Alvaro Uribe. By a lopsided 62-to-5 vote - with the opposition walking out in protest - senators on Tuesday approved a bill paving the way for a referendum to amend the constitution and allow Uribe to run for an unprecedented third term...
...conservative counterpart to Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's left-wing President who was first elected 11 years ago and has vowed to rule until 2021. Others see parallels with Alberto Fujimori, who took on his country's guerrilla groups and used his popularity to gain a third presidential term in 2000. But Fujimori quickly fell from grace and was forced to resign. Last month, a Peruvian court convicted him of mass murder and kidnapping and sentenced him to 25 years in prison...
...Uribe administration is already showing troubling signs of decay - and paranoia. His intelligence agency stands accused of spying on political opponents. Dozens of pro-Uribe lawmakers have been jailed for collaborating with right-wing death squads. As a result, nearly one-third of the senators voting in favor of the referendum on Tuesday were unelected alternates standing in for their disgraced colleagues...
...killed as many as 1,600 civilians and dressed them up as guerrillas to run up the body count and earn cash bonuses. "Uribe already has too much power. He controls the legislature. He has growing influence on the judiciary," says Daniel Coronell, a columnist and TV journalist. "A third term for Uribe would be dangerous for Colombian democracy...