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Nancy Pelosi says that she’d like to see Obamacare improved by moving to a public option or a single-payer system:

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<p>TODAY marks the beginning of health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s new insurance exchanges, for which two million Americans have signed up. Now that the individual mandate is officially here, let me begin with an admission: Obamacare is awful.</p>

These days the word is particularly toxic at the White House, where it has been hidden away to make the Affordable Care Act more palatable to the public and less a target for Republicans, who have long accused Democrats of seeking “socialized medicine.” But the redistribution of wealth has always been a central feature of the law and lies at the heart of the insurance market disruptions driving political attacks this fall. “Understand this is not a redistribution argument,” the president told his audience then. “This is not about taking from rich people to give to poor people. This is...

SYDNEY (AFX) - Federal treasurer Peter Costello is expected to announce Tuesday evening a fiscal 2005 budget surplus of 7-10 bln aud as soaring company profits and a record low umemployment rate boost the government's coffers, economists said. They expect Costello to put his year to June 2006 budget surplus estimate at around 4.5 bln aud. At its mid-year economic review, the Treasury department estimated the budget surplus for the current financial year at 6.2 bln aud, or 0.7 pct of GDP, up from the original forecast of 2.4 bln aud made in last year's May federal budget. While some...

Emission Of Smog Ingredients From Trees Is Increasing Rapidly Two major sources of smog-producing chemicals are automobile tailpipes and natural emissions from tree leaves. Postdoctoral researcher Drew Purves found that land use practices have altered the mix of trees across the landscape, greatly increasing the contribution from trees. One of the greatest producers is the sweetgum species. Princeton NJ (SPX) Sep 29, 2004 Changes in U.S. forests caused by land use practices may have inadvertently worsened ozone pollution, according to a study led by Princeton University scientists. The study examined a class of chemicals that are emitted as unburned fuel...