Republicans say the plan would add to the nation's debt, raise insurance costs and expand government involvement in health care.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

Their ideas include permitting Americans to shop for health insurance in other states and expanding health care savings accounts.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

An estimated eighty-three percent of people under age sixty-five who are in the United States legally now have insurance coverage.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

A major reform of the American system of health care and insurance has moved farther in Congress than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

The law will require Americans to have health insurance, with a few exceptions, or pay a fine starting in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

For the first time, Americans will be required to have health insurance or face a yearly fine starting in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

today,after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Also,in four years,employers with more than fifty workers will have to offer their employees a health insurance plan.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

Calculating building height was not a complex measurement in the late nineteenth century with early skyscrapers like the Home Insurance Building in Chicago.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

But now a program called Kilimo Salama, or safe farming, offers low-cost insurance in parts of Kenya.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

People over sixty-five are covered by the Medicare insurance program which the government created in nineteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

People not covered by employer plans, Medicaid or Medicare could buy health insurance in marketplaces called exchanges.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

But insurance companies and conservatives in Congress say the so-called public option would mean unfair competition.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

In all,the plan aims to make health insurance available to thirty-two million people now without it.

VOA: special.2010.03.24