"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Democrats in the House of Representatives announced they had reached a compromise on just how to pay for the costly reform measure.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

In their study, the researchers tested blood for cotinine,a chemical which is produced when nicotine is metabolized, so they got an objective measure of how much smoke the teenagers were exposed to.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04