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Healthcare Reform: The Policies and the Politics
The first provisions of healthcare reform took effect yesterday, with House Republicans still bent on getting rid of the whole thing one way or the other. We look at the details and the rhetoric. Also, Washington gets tough on China over Yuan's value, and Colbert on Capitol Hill.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenThe first provisions of healthcare reform took effect yesterday, with House Republicans still bent on getting rid of the whole thing one way or the other. We look at the details and the rhetoric. Also, Washington gets tough on China over Yuan's value, and comedian Stephen Colbert testified before a committee of Congress today, in the same style he uses on cable TV.
Banner image: University of Miami Pediatrician, Dr. Lee Sanders examines Aalliyah Negron, 6, as her sister Jensenia Bonilla,4, (R) watches in an examination room at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine on September 23, 2010 in Miami, Florida. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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3 storiesWashington Gets Tough on China over Yuan’s Value
The House Ways and Means Committee today opened the way for retaliation against China over its undervalued currency, the key to a massive trade imbalance that critics say costs the US billions of dollars and millions of jobs. Greg Ip, author of The Little Book of Economics : How the Economy Works in the Real World, is US Economics editor for…
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After months of political brawling on Capitol Hill, President Obama made history last March by signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a sweeping reform of America's healthcare system. Yesterday, the first provisions went into effect, and Obama was in campaign mode, with his eye on November's elections.
Read the story36 minStephen Colbert Talks Immigrant Labor on Capitol Hill
With no pre-election consensus on government spending, Congress has cancelled floor votes for the rest of this week to work on preventing agencies from shutting down. But a House committee took time today to hear testimony from Stephen Colbert. The comedian tossed out his prepared testimony in favor of a series of suggestive one-liners.
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