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Two senators offer bipartisan healthcare proposal

Apr. 28, 2009
Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) want to pay more to hospitals and doctors meeting quality standards . . . and penalize those who don't. Pushing to change how medicine is paid for as part of a sweeping overhaul of the nation's healthcare system, two leading senators offered a...
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler