Proposals to raise their taxes to help pay for the plan face objections, and not just from the Republican minority in Congress.

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We ain't got to pay no rent. We can just work it together, split everything rightdown the middle.

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

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And it just tears me up to see the solution that health care is expensive, so let's have somebody else pay for it."

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The United States has brought Last year German industrial group Siemens agreed to pay just over $1.3 billion to settle corruption probes in the United States and Germany.

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"We really need to pay a lot of attention to those patients when they leave the hospital and not just leave them with the idea that they are going to continue their lives as before."

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