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Monday, June 15, 2009

President pressing health care overhaul


President Barack Obama visits Green Bay on Thursday, as his administration begins a final push toward the most sweeping changes in the nation's health care system since Medicare was introduced in 1965.

With Congress working to pass legislation by early August, the once-improbable goal of significant health care reform stands a chance of becoming a reality.

"The big story here is how far and how fast health care reform has come in 2009," said Jonathan Oberlander, a professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, who has written extensively about the obstacles to such reform.

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