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More thorny challenges ahead for health overhaul

ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON

A sweeping health overhaul bill has survived a major challenge from the left, but onslaughts loom from the right on thorny issues including abortion and insurance coverage for illegal immigrants. Liberal Democrats failed in two efforts Tuesday to include a government-run insurance option in the legislation before the Senate Finance Committee. Finance is the last of five congressional panels completing work on President Barack Obama's No. 1 domestic priority, a topto- bottom reshaping of the U.S. health care system to hold down costs and extend co...

 

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