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BOB WOODWARD: He is tuned in to his own ambivalence, and in the reporting on this, it's very clear he realizes we face a problem that is not going to go away, that he's got to address. And there are documents that are floating around that I got and notes of meetings, and you see. For instance, on Medicare, he's now campaigning on “We're not going to cut Medicare.” And there are documents where last year he was saying, “Oh, yeah, we have to cut it $250 billion over ten years.” JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: Wait. So you've got a document...

"Congress Votes to Socialize Health Care in United States" Monday, March 22, 2010 By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief SNIPPET: "According to the CBO, by 2016, the cheapest family health care plan that Americans will be required to buy under the law will cost $12,000 per year. The average family plan will cost $15,200. A family of four making $88,201 per year—or more than 400 percent of the poverty level—will not receive any federal subsidy to purchase such a plan. They will pay taxes, however, to subsidize the health care purchases of people earning less than 400 percent of poverty. According...

Too Much of a Good Thing? Public Health Plan Could Have Huge Advantage in Market Under the plan being pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a government-run health insurance plan would provide nearly the same benefits as the other private plans in a new insurance exchange, at a fraction of the cost. By Judson Berger FOXNews.com Friday, October 23, 2009 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discusses health care at a news conference on Capitol Hill Oct. 23, as Rep. James Clyburn looks on. (AP Photo) With 350 employees covered under his auto dealership's health care plan, Burt Brenner said a government-run...