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The approach currently favored by the leadership would allow rank-and-file Democrats to avoid taking a separate vote on the Senate-passed health bill. Meanwhile, the Budget Committee voted to send the measure on to the Rules panel.
During early afternoon remarks delivered at an Ohio senior center, the president focused on human stories and emotion while pushing for health care reform. He also reassured seniors about how they would fare under the health overhaul.
Democrats spent Sunday trying to pull enough votes together in the House to pass a health care reform bill later this week but said they were optimistic about their chances.
A host of political challenges and potential pitfalls awaits lawmakers pushing for a final vote on health care reform including abortion, reconciliation rules and immigration.
At a recent hearing of the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, "[i]nternational health organisations working to help check the spread of AIDS in Africa said meagre increases in funds from the U.S. government this year would be a step backwards. Some experts also emphasised that prevention must get appropriate attention in any fight against the disease," Inter Press Service reports.
During his second visit to Haiti since the January earthquake, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "promised Haitians on Sunday that the world has not forgotten the quake-torn nation as it suffers from a shortage of shelter and growing violence in teeming camps for the homeless," the Associated Press reports (Katz, 3/14).
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If Democrats fail to pass health legislation, the loss could have lasting consequences for a president whose supporters have become accustomed to victory.
Democrats assailed health insurers for hiking rates in order to gain popular momentum for their health overhaul, but health economists say insurers did cause high health costs.
States struggle with budget cuts, especially to Medicaid and other medical assistance programs for the poor.
Backlash growns among states to federal overhaul's proposal to impose a mandate for individuals to buy health insurance.
Health care advertising is revving up in advance of the final votes on pending congressional legislation.
A federal court finds no link between vaccines and autism after examining three cases that started in 2007.
"Breaking with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the president of the Catholic Health Association has endorsed the Senate health care reform legislation that is scheduled to be voted on by the House of Representatives this week," according to Catholic World.
Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin, a veteran master of civil procedure who first joined the office he now leads in 1977, will be thrust into a deciding role if Democrats pursue their health overhaul efforts with help from a filibuster-proof tactic known as budget reconciliation.
The FDA is considering ending a program that allows medical-equipment makers to have their products reviewed by third-party companies instead of by FDA officials.
In North Dakota, which has a system much like the one that anti-abortion advocates are seeking in the national health overhaul, large insurer says it doesn't sell abortion polices because customers don't seek it, The Washington Post reports.
The offer of federal stimulus funds is spurring Indiana health care providers to convert to electronic medical records, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports.
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