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NEWS ABOUT: mandate

mandate stories: 3 news summaries
poll

Public Doesn't Want to Pay for Health Care Fix

Americans support goals, but not if it will cost them personally

Nov 16, 09 10:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Americans are enthusiastic about health care reform, but only as long as it doesn't drive up the price of their own premiums, a new AP poll finds. Whenever questions were framed broadly, voters seemed to support Democrats’ plans, but when asked about specific trade-offs they balked. A whopping 82%, for... More »

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health care costs • health care reform • poll numbers • opinion polls • mandate

(Newser) - Current health care legislation would require every American to buy health insurance, but would do little or nothing to control the skyrocketing premiums they’d have to pay, the LA Times reports. Versions of the bill try to address the problem indirectly—with a public option in the House... More »

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health care costs • health insurance premiums • health care reform • Max Baucus • public option • mandate

OPINION

 Obama's 'Spell is Broken' 

Misreading his mandate and talking down to subjects makes president 'ordinary'

Sep 4, 09 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's big-government dreams have turned him into a modern-day Icarus, Charles Krauthammer writes for the Washington Post. “His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth.” The magic is gone after “a disastrous summer” of “mistaking his mandate, believing his... More »

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health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • opposition • Charles Krauthammer • political capital • big government • mandate

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