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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that health insurance premiums will go up under Obamacare because people who did not buy insurance before, and thus had no premium at all, will now be forced to buy insurance.She also urged people to be “optimistic” about Obamacare. “You just see,” Pelosi said. “I mean be optimistic about it. It is a very, very exciting enterprise.” … “It’s also about what you get for the money,” Pelosi added. “In other words, people will be getting no lifetime or annual limits on their coverage, no discrimination because of a preexisting medical...

Calling the rising cost of medical liability insurance "unacceptable," D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams yesterday urged the D.C. Council to provide some relief for doctors. He introduced the Health Care Reform Act of 2005, flanked by physicians and other medical officials who said they are being forced to practice elsewhere, making it more difficult for city residents to get adequate health care. "We have the dubious distinction of having among the very highest medical liability insurance premiums in the nation and the highest jury awards in the nation," Mr. Williams said.