Healthcare Reform? National Healthcare? After 9 years of low taxes on the richest individuals in USa, loss of our manufacturing base, and the cost of

Bush's Wars... we need to expand wellness care or healthcare or basic medical care to the rest of working citizens, like me that can not afford medical insurance at the cost that we have today.

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today's papers
Health Care Battle Heats Up
By Daniel Politi
Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009, at 6:44 AM ET
The New York Times leads with a look at how the party-line vote on health care legislation in the Senate's health committee shows how Democrats may end up implementing "what would be the biggest changes in social policy in more than 40 years" without Republican support. In approving the bill 13 to 10, the Senate committee was the first in Congress to approve the legislation. The measure includes a public insurance option, which Republicans have vehemently opposed. The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox lead with the third day of Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings. The woman who will almost certainly become the first Hispanic on the nation's highest court was a bit more relaxed yesterday, but took pains to avoid answering any questions about a number of specific legal issues that lawmakers threw her way, including abortion and gun rights.

USA Today leads with the Federal Reserve predicting that the unemployment rate will get worse than expected, but the economy will grow more robustly than previously thought. In other words, a jobless recovery is on the way. Minutes from the Fed's policy meeting in June reveal that most officials believe the jobless rate would reach 9.8 percent to 10.1 percent in the fourth quarter and will only fall to 9.5 percent to 9.8 percent late next year. But the Fed also expects the economy to grow 2.1 percent to 3.3 percent in 2010. The Los Angeles Times leads with new data that suggest home prices in Southern California may have reached bottom as June saw the first significant increase in prices in two years. In addition, for the first time in nine months, less than half of the sales were foreclosures.

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Daniel Politi writes "Today's Papers" for Slate. He can be reached at todayspapers@slate.com.