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Campaign aims to sign up Americans for health insuranceEnroll America, a new nonprofit group, plans to publicize the expanded availability of health coverage under the new federal healthcare law and to help states make enrollment easier. By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times September 14, 2011, 4:42 p.m. Reporting from Washington - Giving a boost to the new healthcare law, a coalition of hospitals, insurers, drug makers and consumer advocates is joining a multimillion-dollar campaign to get Americans signed up for health insurance starting in 2014. The new nonprofit group, called Enroll America, plans a state-by-state effort to publicize the...

House Resolution 615 Over the past few weeks, members of Congress and the American people have come to know the details of the Administration's proposed health care plan. Call it whatever you like, I believe this proposal is nothing more than government-run health care. As a physician, I am amazed at the number of bureaucrats in this House who are quick to claim a government-run health care plan is the reform this country needs. In response to this, I have offered a resolution that will offer members of Congress an opportunity to put their money where their mouth is, and...

  For Immediate ReleaseNovember 12, 2005 President's Radio Address      Audio      THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This coming Tuesday, America's Medicare beneficiaries can begin to enroll for new prescription drug coverage. This new benefit is the greatest advance in health care for seniors and Americans with disabilities since the creation of Medicare 40 years ago. In the past, Medicare would pay tens of thousands of dollars for ulcer surgery, but not a few hundred dollars for prescription drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers. In the past, Medicare would pay more than $100,000 to treat the effects of a stroke,...

Iraqi Soldiers Enroll in Literacy Classes More than 780 students enrolled in 21 classes in a programdesigned to increase literacy in the Iraqi Army. By Greg Casaretto Gulf Region North U.S. Army Corps of Engineers SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, Nov. 4, 2005 — Under the previous Iraqi regime, the school system forced Kurdish people to attend institutes of learning where Arabic was the only language used in class. Many Kurdish children never learned to read and write in their language and typically, they were not successful students because Arabic schools did not offer Arabic as a second language. Consequently, the illiteracy...