This timely and insightful book puts Barack Obama’s current quest for universal health insurance in historical context and gives new meaning to the audacity of hope. Universal health care has bedeviled, eluded or defeated every president for the last 75 years. Franklin Roosevelt left it out of Social Security because he was afraid it would be too complicated and attract fierce resistance. Harry Truman fought like hell for it but ultimately lost. Dwight Eisenhower reshaped the public debate ...
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After the Clunker Party, an Auto Sales Hangover Cash for clunkers did its job in August, pushing car sales to levels not seen since last year. But the boom from the U.S. government's program has already worn off for automakers. Car companies said on Sept. 1 that their August sales soared to monogram minilinan annualized selling rate of about 14 million, thanks to the government's clunkers program, which gave $3,500 to $4,500 to consumers trading in an old gas guzzler for something more effici...
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A new television ad campaign seeks to ratchet up pressure on Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley among his constituents to accept sweeping reforms to the nation's health care system, but even his political opponents concede there's little that can be done to scare the veteran Republican lawmaker. Grassley, who is among three Democrats andnike yeezy three Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee negotiating a health care system overhaul, has been in office since 1956 and seems set to cruise to a six...
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Many users of Google's free e-mail service were stranded Tuesday afternoon when they logged on to find the service no longer working. According to research firm ComScore, the Gmail service, launched in 2004, has nearly 146 million users worldwide -- so when Google admits that an issue with the service is affecting "a majority of users," that's a not-insignificant portion of Web users. Charles Barkley By Tuesday evening, the search engine company appeared to have fixed the problem as users of ...
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