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...from Bozeman, to prepare for Obama's arrival and for the side trips to Yellowstone as well as for another town-hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colo. That meeting will be the President's third such appearance after one in New Hampshire on Aug. 11 and Montana's on Aug. 14. (Obama won New Hampshire and Colorado in the election and lost Montana by a narrow margin.) Air Force One will land just after noon on Friday, and the President will speak at the spacious airport hangar shortly afterward. (See pictures of health care for the uninsured...
...Finance Committee, for example, is on the verge of a deal that would jettison the public option in favor of nonprofit, consumer-owned health-care co-ops, which would mean far less government involvement than many liberals would like to see. The Finance Committee, whose chairman, Max Baucus of Montana, is working closely with ranking Republican Charles Grassley, appears poised to omit any requirement that employers provide coverage to their workers (though they would have to reimburse the government for what it would pay to help them buy their own coverage) and to give relatively skimpy subsidies to Americans...
...without them. The Senate Finance Committee - one of five in Congress that oversee health care and the only one that has not yet unveiled at least draft legislation - must include in its draft a plan to pay for reform. The three Democrats (led by Finance chairman Max Baucus of Montana) and three Republicans (led by Chuck Grassley of Iowa) trying to hammer out a bipartisan agreement behind closed doors have made some progress on reaching a consensus. In addition to scrapping a requirement that employers provide workers with insurance, the senators are in favor of the excise...
...proposals. And it puts a lot of pressure on the Senate Finance Committee - the last Senate committee dealing with health-care reform, and the one long expected to generate some bipartisan support - to produce some tangible cost-cutting. The negotiators - three Democrats (Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico) and three Republicans (top Finance Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, top HELP Republican Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Olympia Snowe of Maine) - are weeks behind schedule and are rushing to finish...
...University of South Carolina found that most food-shopping options in rural areas fall into the convenience-store category because grocery stores are located too far away. But although poverty puts people at risk for obesity, it doesn't determine their fate. A number of impoverished states - including Montana, Texas and New Mexico - have relatively low levels of obesity. There must be something else. (See the top 10 food trends...