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Dems unveil final health care plan, but passage is far from certain

Congress drew closer to a historic vote to rebuild America’s health system after Democrats on Thursday unveiled their final blueprint for the largest overhaul since Medicare.

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Democrats push toward Sunday vote on health care (AP)

Clinic workers hold signs and chant during a rally in support of US President Barack Obama's health care reform package in Oakland, California, on March 17. US President Barack Obama on Thursday scrapped a planned trip to Asia in favor of making an 11th-hour drive to see his historic health care overhaul through a cliffhanger Sunday vote.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP – Slowly but steadily, support is building behind President Barack Obama’s health care legislation in the House, the result of intense lobbying and politically targeted changes aimed at reassuring waverers and winning over critics.


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New Dem lawmakers feeling heat on health care (AP)

Stephanie Spivey protests in favor of health care reform during a rally outside the district office of Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Granger, in downtown South Bend, Ind., Thursday, March 18, 2010. Groups on both sides of the debate on the federal health care overhaul are keeping up the pressure on three Indiana Democratic congressmen who say they haven't decided how they'll vote. (AP Photo/South Bend Tribune, Marcus Marter)AP – Freshman Rep. Steve Driehaus is getting it from all sides on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The Ohio Democrat opened his local newspaper, The Cincinnati Enquirer, on Wednesday to find a giant ad urging him to vote against the bill — featuring a photo of him with his two young daughters. Tea party protesters stormed his office and berated his staff.


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Dems sweeten health bill, set showdown Sunday vote (AP)

Clinic workers hold signs and chant during a rally in support of US President Barack Obama's health care reform package in Oakland, California, on March 17. US President Barack Obama on Thursday scrapped a planned trip to Asia in favor of making an 11th-hour drive to see his historic health care overhaul through a cliffhanger Sunday vote.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP – Historic health care change in the balance, Democrats plowed fresh billions into insurance subsidies for consumers on Thursday and added a $250 rebate for seniors facing high prescription drugs, last-minute sweeteners to sweeping $940 billion legislation headed for a climactic weekend vote.


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Obama signs jobs bill as health care intrudes (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks before he signs the HIRE Act jobs bill in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – President Barack Obama has said he wants to focus laser-like on the public’s top concern: jobs. But the ongoing effort to remake the nation’s health care system keeps getting in the way.


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Obama stays in D.C. to push health reform bill into final historic vote

WASHINGTON – President Obama has postponed his trip to Asia so he can remain in Washington to help Democrats pass health care reform, with a a climactic vote now expected Sunday.

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Democrats on track for vote on $940 billion health bill (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., left, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, for the  signing of the jobs bill. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP – House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama’s promise to expand coverage while slashing the deficit, a strategy aimed at winning over the party’s fiscal conservatives.


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