Senate Panel Adds Billions for Health
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Defying a veto threat from President Bush, the Senate Finance Committee approved a major expansion of the Childrenâs Health Insurance Program.
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A federal advisory panel recommends sweeping changes to Medicaid to rein in costs, including greater use of managed care for the sickest recipients.
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The Senate, with an overwhelming bipartisan vote today, broke a filibuster and prepared to send President Bush a $35 billion measure that would revamp and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program, setting up the biggest domestic confrontation between the president and Congress since B...
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A new Emory University study found that 15 medical conditions led to about half of the $200 billion rise in US health spending from 1987 to 2000.
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The cost of caring for aging Americans will add 25 percent to the nation's health care bill by 2030 unless people act now to stay healthy, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
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A US Senate panel on Tuesday backed a $94 billion 2005 spending bill which included an extra $800 million to fund space projects next year.
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President Bush sent to Congress a $2.9 trillion budget plan that would dramatically increase military spending -- including an extra $245 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- but squeeze federal health care programs and most domestic agencies to achieve his goal of eliminating the deficit...
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WASHINGTON - A U.S. Senate panel has recommended providing $17.45 billion for NASA next year, or about $150 million more than the White House requested.
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Groups representing most facets of the nation's health care system are lining up in support of a large spending increase for a popular children's insurance program.
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THE REGION US Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Representative Michael Capuano, Governor Deval Patrick, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, and other state and local officials joined executives and medical staff of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at the formal start of construction of the $250 million, 275,000-square-foot Yawkey Center for Cancer Care in the Longwood Medical Area. Funded with $30 million from the ...
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Politicians are pushing an idea to fight high health costs by shielding employers from the most expensive medical cases.
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As a Senate committee prepares to approve an additional $35 billion for children's health insurance, the Bush administration spelled out its objections to how the increase would be paid for &#151; a 61-cent increase on the excise tax for a pack of cigarettes.
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Lawmakers in a key Senate committee brokered a bipartisan agreement Friday that they said would extend health insurance to an additional 3.3 million low-income children in the U.S.
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Brushing aside threats of a presidential veto, a Senate committee on Thursday approved a five-year, $35 billion expansion of a children's health insurance program that would be financed through higher tobacco taxes.
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U.S. spending on prescription drugs, hospital care and other health services is expected to double to $4.1 trillion over the next decade, up from $2.1 trillion in 2006, a government report released on Wednesday found.
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A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday signaled a willingness to work with President George W. Bush on an effort to improve the U.S. health care system, saying it was crucial to rein in costs and expand coverage to the uninsured.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Wednesday approved a $463.5 billion funding bill to keep the  government running this year, while adding money to care for  veterans wounded in Iraq and stepping up the global struggle  against HIV/AIDS.