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President's plan for health care

President Barack Obama laid out his first budget plan yesterday, predicting a stunning federal deficit of $1.75 trillion this year - nearly four times last year's record - and asking Congress to raise taxes on the wealthy to stem the flood of red ink while moving the country toward guaranteed health care for all.

Denouncing what he called the "dishonest accounting" of recent federal budgets,...

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