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GOP Budget Proposal Would Increase Health Cost for Future Retirees

WASHINGTON -- Most future retirees would pay considerably more for health care under the new budget proposed by House Republicans, according to an analysis by nonpartisan experts for Congress that signals problems ahead for the plan. The fiscal blueprint would put people now 54 and younger in a different kind of health...

Congress Votes to Repeal Small Part of Health Law

WASHINGTON -- The Senate has voted to send the White House its first rollback of last year's health care law, a bipartisan repeal of a burdensome tax reporting requirement that's widely unpopular with businesses. The Senate voted 87 to 12 to repeal the filing requirement, which would have forced millions of businesses to...

Health Care Reform: One Year Later [VIDEO]

Forget 'Death Panels' -- Poll Says Most Want Better Life, Not Longer

WASHINGTON -- A large majority of Americans say the quality of life, not the length, is more important when their days are numbered. But more than half also say the health care system should spare no expense to extend life. The seemingly contradictory views were among those revealed in a new poll conducted by the National...

Opinion: The Jobs and Health Care Connection

Maybe I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I finally just got what is bankrupting this country. It came to me when I was getting ready for bed and glanced over at my balled-up pair of arthritis gloves. In the past year, I've been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I'm on all kinds of supplements and drugs, but I thought...

Background on health care

Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans.

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