The House wants a government-run health care program to compete in the insurance marketplace.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

Now,a doctor in Senegal who specializes in newborn care is leading a program financed by the Ministry of Health and UNICEF.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

It would finance a five-year program to pay for health care and other services for victims.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

Private insurance companies strongly oppose a government-run program, saying it could force them out of the health care coverage market.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

He hoped he would not need major medical care until he turned 65 and qualified for the government's Medicare insurance program.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Kendra Kielbasa is spokeswoman for Home Instead Senior Care, the national home care group that runs the program.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

But most get benefits though Medicare, a government program that subsidizes health care for Americans over 65.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

She heads a program at Harvard University which aims to find a way to provide cancer care, including breast cancer, to more people in developing countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Another problem is money. The World Health Organization says the Stop TB effort needs $2 billion to carry out its TB care and control program in 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Pandya says the program will provide psychological, legal,and health care as a way to prevent and protect the women and their families from further social exclusion and violence.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Leaders of the South Africa's opposition political parties, labor unions and health-care professions praised President Zuma for launching an ambitious program to test 15 million South Africans for the HIV/AIDS virus by June of next year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

Mr.Obama sought to dispel the notion that he wants the federal government to control all health care, or that he plans to radically cut the government program that already subsidizes medical care for the elderly.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

A major point of difference between the two main parties is whether the government should offer a health insurance program to compete with private insurance companies in an effort to drive down health care costs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Many liberal Democrats believed that Mr.Obama's election last year presented the best opportunity yet to pass health care legislation that would include universal insurance coverage for all Americans and the establishment of a government insurance program to compete with private insurance companies.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28