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97 relations: Al Franken, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Arlen Specter, Barack Obama, Bill (law), Bill Nelson, Bob Bennett (politician), Bob Corker, Caste, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Children's Health Insurance Program, Chronic condition, Chuck Grassley, Committee, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service, Consumer-driven healthcare, Curative care, Daniel Inouye, David Brooks (commentator), Debbie Stabenow, Democratic Party (United States), Demography of the United States, Disproportionate share hospital, Economic efficiency, Electronic health record, Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, Ezra Klein, FactCheck.org, Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, Fox News, Geographic mobility, Gordon H. Smith, Health care in the United States, Health professional, Healthcare policies of candidates in the United States presidential election, 2008, Healthcare reform in the United States, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008, Individual mandate, Jacob Weisberg, Jeff Merkley, Job lock, Joe Lieberman, Joe Sestak, Judd Gregg, Lamar Alexander, Library of Congress, Lindsey Graham, Maria Cantwell, ..., Mary Landrieu, Massachusetts, Max Baucus, Medicaid, Medical device, Mike Crapo, Mike Lee (American politician), Montana, National Education Association, New Drug Application, Newsweek, Norm Coleman, Oregon, Peter R. Orszag, Press release, Public health insurance option, Reconciliation (United States Congress), Republican Party (United States), Ron Wyden, Single-payer healthcare, Tax credit, Tax deduction, Ted Kaufman, Ted Kennedy, The Hill (newspaper), The New York Times, The Oregonian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, THOMAS, Tom Carper, Trent Lott, U.S. state, United Food and Commercial Workers, United States Congress Joint Committee on Taxation, United States presidential election, 2008, United States Senate, United States Senate Committee on Finance, United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008, United States Senate election in Oregon, 2008, United States Senate special election in Mississippi, 2008, UnitedHealth Group, Universal health care, Utah, 110th United States Congress, 111th United States Congress. Expand index (47 more) »
Al Franken
Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American comedian, writer, producer, author, and politician who served as a United States Senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018.
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American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the largest trade union of public employees in the United States.
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Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as United States Senator for Pennsylvania.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.
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Bill (law)
A bill is proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature.
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Bill Nelson
Clarence William Nelson II (born September 29, 1942) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Florida, a seat he was first elected to in 2000.
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Bob Bennett (politician)
Robert Foster "Bob" Bennett (September 18, 1933 – May 4, 2016) was an American politician and businessman.
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Bob Corker
Robert Phillips Corker Jr. (born August 24, 1952) is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Tennessee since 2007.
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Caste
Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a lifestyle which often includes an occupation, status in a hierarchy, customary social interaction, and exclusion.
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is an American think tank that analyzes the impact of federal and state government budget policies from a progressive perspective.
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Children's Health Insurance Program
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children.
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Chronic condition
A chronic condition is a human health condition or disease that is persistent or otherwise long-lasting in its effects or a disease that comes with time.
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Chuck Grassley
Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Iowa, a seat he was first elected to in 1980.
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Committee
A committee (or "commission") is a body of one or more persons that is subordinate to a deliberative assembly.
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Congressional Budget Office
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government that provides budget and economic information to Congress.
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Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service (CRS), known as Congress's think tank, is a public policy research arm of the United States Congress.
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Consumer-driven healthcare
Consumer-driven healthcare (CDHC), defined narrowly, refers to third-tier health insurance plans that allow members to use health savings accounts (HSAs), Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs), or similar medical payment products to pay routine healthcare expenses directly, but a high-deductible health plan protects them from catastrophic medical expenses.
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Curative care
Curative care or curative medicine is the health care given for medical conditions where a cure is considered achievable, or even possibly so, and directed to this end.
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Daniel Inouye
was a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012.
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David Brooks (commentator)
David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is an American author and conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times.
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Debbie Stabenow
Deborah Ann Greer Stabenow (born April 29, 1950) is an American politician who is the senior United States Senator from Michigan and a Democrat.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
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Demography of the United States
The United States is estimated to have a population of 327,996,618 as of June 25, 2018, making it the third most populous country in the world.
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Disproportionate share hospital
The United States government provides funding to hospitals that treat indigent patients through the Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) programs, under which facilities are able to receive at least partial compensation.
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Economic efficiency
Economic efficiency is, roughly speaking, a situation in which nothing can be improved without something else being hurt.
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Electronic health record
An electronic health record (EHR), or electronic medical record (EMR), is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically-stored health information in a digital format.
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Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) (codified in part at) is a federal United States tax and labor law that establishes minimum standards for pension plans in private industry.
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Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein (born May 9, 1984) is an American journalist, blogger, and political commentator who currently works as editor-at-large of Vox.
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FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org is a nonprofit non-partisan website that describes itself as a "consumer advocate for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics".
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Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program is a system of "managed competition" through which employee health benefits are provided to civilian government employees and annuitants of the United States government.
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Fox News
Fox News (officially known as the Fox News Channel, commonly abbreviated to FNC) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.
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Geographic mobility
Geographic mobility is the measure of how populations and goods move over time.
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Gordon H. Smith
Gordon Harold Smith (born May 25, 1952) is an American politician, a former United States Senator and businessman from the state of Oregon.
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Health care in the United States
Health care in the United States is provided by many distinct organizations.
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Health professional
A health professional, health practitioner or healthcare provider (sometimes simply "provider") is an individual who provides preventive, curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to people, families or communities.
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Healthcare policies of candidates in the United States presidential election, 2008
This article lists the healthcare statements of some candidates for president during the 2008 US presidential election.
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Healthcare reform in the United States
Healthcare reform in the United States has a long history.
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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
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Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008
The 2008 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton, then junior United States Senator from New York, was announced on her website on January 20, 2007.
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Individual mandate
An individual mandate is a requirement by law for certain persons to purchase or otherwise obtain a good or service.
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Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, serving as editor-in-chief of Slate Group, a division of Graham Holdings Company.
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Jeff Merkley
Jeffrey Alan Merkley (born October 24, 1956) is an American politician and is the current junior United States Senator from Oregon, having served since January 3, 2009.
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Job lock
The term job lock is used to describe the inability of an employee to freely leave a job because doing so will result in the loss of employee benefits (usually health or retirement related).
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Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is an American politician and attorney who was a United States Senator for Connecticut from 1989 to 2013.
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Joe Sestak
Joseph Ambrose Sestak Jr. (born December 12, 1951) is an American politician and retired U.S. Navy officer.
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Judd Gregg
Judd Alan Gregg (born February 14, 1947) served as the 76th Governor of New Hampshire and was a United States Senator from New Hampshire, who served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
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Lamar Alexander
Andrew Lamar Alexander Jr. (born July 3, 1940) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Tennessee, a seat he has held since 2003.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Olin Graham (born July 9, 1955) is an American politician and retired U.S. Air Force colonel serving as the senior United States Senator from South Carolina, a seat he has held since 2003.
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Maria Cantwell
Maria Elaine Cantwell (born October 13, 1958) is the junior United States Senator from Washington, elected in 2000.
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Mary Landrieu
Mary Loretta Landrieu (born November 23, 1955) is an American politician, entrepreneur, and former U.S. Senator from the state of Louisiana.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Max Baucus
Max Sieben Baucus (born Enke; December 11, 1941) is a retired American politician and diplomat who served as a United States Senator from Montana from 1978 to 2014.
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Medicaid
Medicaid in the United States is a joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources.
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Medical device
A medical device is any apparatus, appliance, software, material, or other article—whether used alone or in combination, including the software intended by its manufacturer to be used specifically for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes and necessary for its proper application—intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for the purpose of.
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Mike Crapo
Michael Dean Crapo (born May 20, 1951) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Idaho, a seat he was first elected to in 1998.
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Mike Lee (American politician)
Michael Shumway Lee (born June 4, 1971) is an American politician, author, and attorney who is the junior United States Senator from Utah.
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Montana
Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.
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National Education Association
The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest professional interest group in the United States.
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New Drug Application
The Food and Drug Administration's New Drug Application (NDA) is the vehicle in the United States through which drug sponsors formally propose that the FDA approve a new pharmaceutical for sale and marketing.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.
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Norm Coleman
Norman Bertram Coleman Jr., (born August 17, 1949) is an American lobbyist, attorney, and politician.
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Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.
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Peter R. Orszag
Peter Richard Orszag (born December 16, 1968) is an American banker and economist, and a Vice Chairman of investment banking and Managing Director at Lazard, where he also serves as Global Co-Head of Healthcare.
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Press release
A press release, news release, media release, press statement or video release is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something ostensibly newsworthy.
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Public health insurance option
The public health insurance option, also known as the public insurance option or the public option, is a proposal to create a government-run health insurance agency that would compete with other private health insurance companies within the United States.
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Reconciliation (United States Congress)
Reconciliation is a legislative process of the United States Congress that allows expedited passage of certain budgetary legislation on spending, revenues, and the federal debt limit with a simple majority vote in both the House (218 votes) and Senate (51 votes).
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
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Ron Wyden
Ronald Lee Wyden (born May 3, 1949) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator for Oregon since 1996.
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Single-payer healthcare
Single-payer healthcare is a healthcare system financed by taxes that covers the costs of essential healthcare for all residents, with costs covered by a single public system (hence 'single-payer').
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Tax credit
A tax credit is a tax incentive which allows certain taxpayers to subtract the amount of the credit they have accrued from the total they owe the state.
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Tax deduction
Tax deduction is a reduction of income that is able to be taxed and is commonly a result of expenses, particularly those incurred to produce additional income.
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Ted Kaufman
Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman (born March 15, 1939) is an American politician and former businessman who served as a United States Senator from Delaware from 2009 to 2010.
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Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009.
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The Hill (newspaper)
The Hill is an American political newspaper and website published in Washington, D.C. since 1994.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Oregonian
The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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THOMAS
THOMAS was the first online database of United States Congress legislative information.
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Tom Carper
Thomas Richard Carper (born January 23, 1947) is the senior United States Senator from Delaware, serving since 2001.
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Trent Lott
Chester Trent Lott Sr. (born October 9, 1941) is an American politician and author.
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U.S. state
A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.
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United Food and Commercial Workers
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers in the United States and Canada in industries including retail; meatpacking, food processing and manufacturing; hospitality; agriculture; cannabis; chemical trades; security; textile, and health care.
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United States Congress Joint Committee on Taxation
The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) is a Committee of the U.S. Congress established under the Internal Revenue Code at.
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United States presidential election, 2008
The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
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United States Senate Committee on Finance
The United States Senate Committee on Finance (or, less formally, Senate Finance Committee) is a standing committee of the United States Senate.
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United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
The United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) generally considers matters relating to these issues.
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United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008
The 2008 United States Senate election in Minnesota took place on November 4, 2008.
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United States Senate election in Oregon, 2008
The 2008 United States Senate election in Oregon was held on November 4, 2008.
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United States Senate special election in Mississippi, 2008
The 2008 United States Senate special election in Mississippi was held on November 4, 2008.
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UnitedHealth Group
UnitedHealth Group Inc. is an American for-profit managed health care company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
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Universal health care
Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, universal care, or socialized health care) is a health care system that provides health care and financial protection to all citizens of a particular country.
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Utah
Utah is a state in the western United States.
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110th United States Congress
The One Hundred Tenth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, between January 3, 2007, and January 3, 2009, during the last two years of the second term of President George W. Bush.
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111th United States Congress
The One Hundred Eleventh United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government from January 3, 2009, until January 3, 2011.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_Americans_Act
