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Romney and Perry Get Testy; Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan Roasted

GOP presidential candidates (L-R) Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann during the CNN Debate, moderated by Anderson Cooper.
Republican rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Perry were involved in a verbal spat on Tuesday, at a CNN-sponsored Presidential debate. However, despite disagreements on immigration and healthcare, the two main challengers united to criticize fellow-candidate pizza-magnate Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan

'Romneycare' Causes Headaches in Massachusetts

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Mitt Romney has been hammered by his Republican presidential rivals for his mandated healthcare law in Massachusetts, but now the state is havingto adjustwith the costs of Romneycare
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Minority, coalition are options in Ontario vote

Minority, coalition are options in Ontario vote

Polls point to a minority government in Canada's economic powerhouse of Ontario after provincial elections next week, amid disillusionment with the ruling Liberals and disappointment with their main rivals.
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Who is Herman Cain?

Bill Clinton antagonist, flat tax supporter, staunch abortion opponent: all of these descriptions could apply to Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, whose resounding win in a Florida straw poll catapulted the Godfather's pizza CEO into the conversation.
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Is Rick Perry’s Bi-National Health Insurance Plan Too Ambitious?

The bi-national health insurance was Perry’s one ambitious plan to provide Texas-funded coverage for both U.S. and Mexican border residents. Perry wanted to implement “an important study that will look at the feasibility of bi-national health insurance” that could “treat maladies unique to this region.”
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Kaiser Southern California Healthcare Workers Strike

Some 2,500 nurses and other medical workers walked off the job at Kaiser Permanente facilities in southern California on Wednesday in a three-day planned strike protesting benefit cuts sought by the nonprofit healthcare giant.
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Healthcare Group Wants Debt Committee to Fail

The powerful healthcare industry hopes a congressional super committee tasked with slashing America's debt will fail and is lobbying instead for automatic spending cuts that will kick in if the panel deadlocks.
Portable Microscope Devised By UCLA

UCLA Develops Palm-Held Portable Microscope For Healthcare Access

Researchers at the University of California (UCLA) have built an on the go compact, light-weight, dual-mode microscope that is not only portable but also efficient. The prototype dual-mode microscope uses holograms instead of lenses as in the case of a traditional microscope. Published in the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, Biomedical Optics Express, the UCLA researchers explain that the prototype not only weighs the same as a medium-sized banana but also fits within the ...
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Verizon seen winning healthcare union fight

Verizon Communications is expected to prevail on key issues such as healthcare costs in its negotiations with unions but may end up postponing its plan to freeze pensions, according to experts who have been following the telephone company's labor dispute.
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Analysis: Verizon seen winning healthcare fight with union

Verizon Communications is expected to prevail on key issues such as healthcare costs in its negotiations with unions but may end up postponing its plan to freeze pensions, according to experts who have been following the telephone company's labor dispute.
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Obesity to Worsen, Weigh Heavily on Healthcare Costs

Obesity is most widespread in Britain and the United States among the world's leading economies and if present trends continue, about half of both men and women in the United States will be obese by 2030, health experts warned on Friday.

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