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							<title><![CDATA[New Republican Health Measure Faces Skeptical Senators]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/us/politics/senate-republican-health-care-bill.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act was revised to help hold down insurance costs while allowing insurers to sell stripped-down plans, but the changes may not be enough.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pass Health Bill or Obamacare Stays, Trump Tells Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/us/politics/health-republicans-vote.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump issued an ultimatum on Thursday to recalcitrant Republicans to fall in line behind a broad health insurance overhaul or see their opportunity to repeal the Affordable Care Act vanish, demanding a Friday vote on a bill that appeared to lack a majority to pass.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's High-Risk Strategy for Health Law Repeal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/us/politics/republican-health-law-repeal-strategy.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Unity on Health Law Elusive, Despite Trump Support]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/affordable-care-act-health-care-trump.html?_r=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump&rsquo;s address to Congress on Tuesday night buoyed House Republican leaders who were hopeful that his leadership would unite fractious lawmakers around a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. But fundamental disagreements still divide Republicans on one of the central...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Law Tax Penalty? I'll Take It, Millions Say]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/us/obamacare-affordable-care-act-tax-penalties.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The architects of the Affordable Care Act thought they had a blunt instrument to force people &mdash; even young and healthy ones &mdash; to buy insurance through the law&rsquo;s online marketplaces: a tax penalty for those who remain uninsured.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump: Health Care Ideas Bewilder Republican Experts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/us/politics/donald-trump-health-care.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Budget Agreement Short-Term Relief for Medicare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/us/agreement-is-seen-as-short-term-relief-for-medicare-and-social-security.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[4 Words Imperiling Health Law Were a Mistake]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/us/politics/contested-words-in-affordable-care-act-may-have-been-left-by-mistake.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They are only four words in a 900-page law: &ldquo;established by the state.&rdquo;But it is in the ambiguity of those four words in the Affordable Care Act that opponents found a path to challenge the law, all the way to the Supreme Court.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Medicaid Rolls Swell, Cuts in Pay to Doctors Loom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/us/obamacare-medicaid-fee-increases-expiring.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Census Survey Revisions Mask Health Law Effects]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/us/politics/census-survey-revisions-mask-health-law-effects.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; The Census Bureau, the authoritative source of health insurance data for more than three decades, is changing its annual survey so thoroughly that it will be difficult to measure the effects of President Obama&rsquo;s health care law in the next report, due this fall,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Insurers Claim Health Website Is Still Flawed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/business/white-house-praises-gains-on-health-site.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Weeks of frantic technical work appear to have made the government&rsquo;s health care website easier for consumers to use. But that does not mean everyone who signs up for insurance can enroll in a health plan.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Notes Show Chaotic WH Talks on Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/us/politics/senator-cites-crisis-of-confidence-on-health-care-site.html?hp&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; More than 100 pages of &ldquo;war room notes&rdquo; released by congressional investigators on Tuesday offer a window into the chaos that overwhelmed the Obama administration as the federal health insurance marketplace started up last month and officials realized that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Most Governors Refuse to Set Up Health Exchanges]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/us/most-states-miss-deadline-to-set-up-health-exchanges.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; The Obama administration said Friday that more than half the states had rejected its pleas to set up their own health insurance exchanges, dealing a setback to President Obama&rsquo;s hopes that Republicans would join a White House campaign to provide health insurance...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Taxes to Take Effect to Fund Health Care Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/us/politics/new-taxes-to-take-effect-to-fund-health-care-law.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For more than a year, politicians have been fighting over whether to raise taxes on high-income people. They rarely mention that affluent Americans will soon be hit with new taxes adopted as part of the 2010 health care law.The new levies, which take effect in January, include an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Efforts to Curb Social Spending Face Resistance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/us/politics/politics-in-play-over-safety-net-in-deficit-talks.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; President Obama&rsquo;s re-election and Democratic gains in Congress were supposed to make it easier for the party to strike a deal with Republicans to resolve the year-end fiscal crisis by providing new leverage. But they could also make it harder as empowered...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Use Health Law to Assail Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/politics/democrats-use-obscure-health-law-provision-to-attack-gop.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; A little-noticed provision of the new health care law is causing big headaches for some members of Congress in this year&rsquo;s elections. And it is likely to cause even bigger headaches for lawmakers next year.        A one-stop destination for the latest political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Recession Over, But Incomes Kept Falling]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/us/recession-officially-over-us-incomes-kept-falling.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; In a grim sign of the enduring nature of the economic slump, household income declined more in the two years after the recession ended than it did during the recession itself, new research has found.        President Obama, talking about his jobs bill in a news...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Passes Health Care Bill in Party-Line Vote]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/health/policy/25health.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#151; The Senate voted Thursday to reinvent the nation&#8217;s health care system, passing a bill to guarantee access to health insurance for tens of millions of Americans and to rein in health costs as proposed by President Obama.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Try to Balance Cost and Coverage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/policy/06health.html?ref=politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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