U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold said Saturday he supports the movementwithin the Senate to pass a health care bill with a public optionunder reconciliation rules, which require a simple majority withouta filibuster. “According to the estimates, the public option was going to save$25 billion,” Feingold said, by competing with high insurancecompany premiums. About 100 people gathered [...]

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c.2010 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — When Republicans take President Barack Obama up on his invitation to hash out their differences over health care this month, they will carry with them a fairly well-developed set of ideas intended to make health insurance more widely available and affordable, by emphasizing tax incentives and state [...]

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