(Applause) The 10-year package, estimated at $940 billion, is meant to extend health insurance to 32 million uninsured Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

This is insurance that you pay each year for insurance in that year and it does not build a cash value.

为了这种保险可以持续生效,你每年都要缴纳保费,保费不产生现金价值

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I can buy insurance for myself this year and I can stop and if I--there's nothing gained-- or next year I would just have to pay it again.

这一年也许我会买这种保险,但是如果觉得划不来了,我可以停买,或者在下一年续买

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Public officials, the self-employed and those who earn more than about $70,000 a year can choose private insurance.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"In the United States of America, no one should have to worry that they'll go without health insurance not for one year, not for one month, not for one day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

"It's time to do what's right for America's working families and put aside partisanship, stop saying things that aren't true, come together as a nation, pass health insurance reform now this year."

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

John Freeman took that gamble a few years ago. The 62-year-old retired computer analyst dropped his health care insurance because the high monthly premiums and a huge deductible were eating up his retirement savings.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

On new taxes, House lawmakers have proposed a 5.4 percent surtax on individuals earning more than $500,000 per year and families with incomes exceeding $1 million,along with with new fees for insurance companies,drug-makers, medical device manufacturers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Legislation that the president and his fellow Democrats want to pass by the end of the year would create a government health insurance option to compete with private insurers, require all individuals to have health insurance and mandate employers to provide it.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

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