朗读：Single-payer health care plan dies in Senate

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WASHINGTON – The liberals' longtime dream of a government-run health care system for all died Wednesday in the Senate, but Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont vowed it will return when the realization dawns that private insurance companies "are no longer needed."

The proposal's demise came as Senate Democratic leaders and the White House sought agreement with Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., to become the 60th supporter of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul — the number needed to overcome a Republican filibuster.

Nelson has met three times in the past nine days with Obama. While he is seeking stricter curbs on abortions in the insurance system the bill would establish, he also has raised issues in his home state that are unrelated to the health care legislation, according to an official with close ties to the senator. The official spoke on grounds of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

Sanders, an independent and socialist, said his approach is the only one "which eliminates the hundreds of billions of dollars in waste, administrative costs, bureaucracy and profiteering that is engendered by the private insurance companies." His remarks drew handshakes and even a hug or two from Democrats who had filed into the Senate to hear him.


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• 语调总是这么好~well read! -小千...千与千寻- ♀ (112 bytes) () 12/16/2009 postreply 20:46:40

• Ah, yes -selfselfself- ♂ (101 bytes) () 12/16/2009 postreply 20:59:59

• 回复：Ah, yes -雨打兔子窝- ♀ (284 bytes) () 12/17/2009 postreply 00:19:55

• So flattered. Keep on the good works -selfselfself- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/17/2009 postreply 07:47:15

• 读的很好, like slow version ~ -天泽园- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/16/2009 postreply 21:13:16

• 读的真好，像个播音员， 谢谢 -我边走边问- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/16/2009 postreply 22:17:08

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• Thanks. This is how I talk most of the time -selfselfself- ♂ (129 bytes) () 12/17/2009 postreply 08:32:59

• 是啊， -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ (387 bytes) () 12/17/2009 postreply 09:22:44

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• 别那么精益求精。being a perfectionist might -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ (143 bytes) () 12/17/2009 postreply 10:04:50

• Wonderful. -婉蕠- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/17/2009 postreply 08:47:21