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• Team Effort in the House to Overhaul Health Care

  The unified approach contrasts with the competition and rivalry among committee chairmen that helped sink President Bill Clinton’s plan for universal health insurance 15 years ...

• Insurers Offer to Soften a Key Rate-Setting Policy

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• In Divide Over Health Care Overhaul, 2 Major Unions Withdraw From a Coalition

  The action shows the seeds of discord behind the optimistic talk at a White House conference on health care. Original post by By ROBERT PEAR