WASHINGTON (AP) -- Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is predicting that the House will pass historic health care overhaul legislation Saturday to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and ban insurance companies from turning people away....
Majority Leader: House Will Pass Health Bill
By ERICA WERNER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press
Thu, 11/05/2009 - 8:46am
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