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The Texas HIV Medication Program supports over 14,000 low-income Texans who rely on them for affordable medications that help prevent HIV from resulting in AIDS.

The program currently provides 40 different medications in more than 80 strengths and formulations to their thousands of patients.

Journalist Ezra Klein has come out in favor of the proposition that a federal health insurance mandate is constitutional, but the question remains a thorny legal problem.

If a reform bill is passed with an individual mandate, will it pass constitutional muster? The answer isn’t quite as clear as Klein would have us believe.

Slowly, but surely, we’ll be getting health care reform in a matter of months.

That is, if Democrats don’t overplay their hand.

Not only that it’s fully paid for.

That’s the latest report from the CBO and it’s encouraging to say the very least.

AP - Memo to President Barack Obama: It's a tax.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus's newly unveiled centrist health plan still faces a bipartisan gauntlet.

Republicans say it gives the government too much control over health care, and still costs too much. Some Democrats say too many concessions were made to Republicans, who won't vote for it anyway.

It's a long way from soup.

Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus plans to unveil a health care bill today that he hopes can win the backing of a majority on his committee — and the full Senate.

But it's getting some negative reviews from those he is counting on to support it.

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President Obama went to Capitol Hill to reinvigorate the push for a health care makeover. He seems to have succeeded, at least with Democrats — including moderates.

The Senate Finance Committee has yet to unveil its proposal to overhaul health care, but chairman Max Baucus did say the president's speech "breathed new life" into what they are doing.