Sales tax plan to finance health care dominates French campaign
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A plan to switch the financing of health care from payroll charges to increased sales taxes to help businesses withstand competition has enlivened legislative elections in France with charges the poor will suffer.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Sunday his plan for universal health care would require higher taxes and cost up to $120 billion per year.
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PARIS -- The day after S&#xE9;gol&#xE8;ne Royal, the French Socialist presidential candidate, unveiled an ambitious election platform that would add billions of euros to government spending, her campaign said yesterday it needed a little more time to figure out who would pay for it.
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The quest to save dollars in the nationâs $2.1 trillion annual health care bill is becoming a lucrative market of its own.
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With soaring insurance costs squeezing workers and employers, votersâ choices this November may well be swayed by an issue that has great personal significance to Americans and their pocketbooks: health care.
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French commentators gave a mixed response  on Monday to Segolene Royal's 100 proposals for her  presidential bid, saying the plans targeted both Socialist and  more conservative voters, but lacked detail on financing.
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Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry.
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The health care debate in this year&#39;s presidential contest has been largely boiled down to an argument over degree: Democrat John F. Kerry proposes an ambitious, costly expansion of health
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President Bush and Democratic rival  John Kerry dueled over health care and the expired assault  weapons ban on Monday, with Bush slamming Kerry for backing a  costly "government takeover" of health care that would lead to  higher taxes.
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Senate Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday battled over blame for a record increase in Medicare health premiums, which Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has criticized in his campaign to unseat President Bush.
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France's President Sarkozy calls for taxes to hit polluters and for French use of pesticides to be halved.
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President George W. Bush told voters in the battleground state of Michigan that Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry would raise their taxes and put &quot;bureaucrats&quot; in charge of health care.
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The health insurer beats some estimates and raises others.
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President Bush promoted medical savings accounts while Senator John Kerry focused on a plan to expand health coverage to children.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to win a huge parliamentary majority to help him push through tax and labor reforms when voters cast ballots for the fourth time in eight weeks in a run-off election on Sunday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin gambled his political future on a health-care deal with the provinces and that gamble appears to have paid off - at least for now.
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With health care the top domestic issue among voters as the nation heads into the 2008 elections, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease asked presidential candidates Tuesday to focus on ways to prevent, treat and manage chronic diseases that account for more than 75 cents of every dollar spent on health care.