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McCain Would 'Put Families In Charge' Of Health Care  TAMPA, Fla. -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain wants health insurance companies to compete for your business on the open market.
He would offer families a $5,000 tax credit to help buy insurance policies.
"Millions of Americans would be making their own health care choices again," McCain said in remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa.
"Insurance companies could no longer take your business for granted, offering narrow plans with escalating costs," he said. "It would help change the whole dynamic of the current system, putting individuals and families back in charge, and forcing companies to respond with better service at lower cost."
His campaign called the speech a major policy address, though McCain has talked about the same ideas for several months. What's new, according to adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin, is that McCain will give more examples of how his policies would work.
Still missing: The total cost of the plan and an estimate of how many people it would help. There are more than 40 million people in the United States who don't have health insurance.
"So, a little more detail, but remember, it is April, and the election's in November, so not everything will happen tomorrow or this week," Holtz-Eakin told reporters Monday.
Under McCain's plan, anyone could get the credit, and those who like their company health care plan could choose...[+]read more
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Preserving Pennsylvania’s Natural Heritage By Pennsylvania Senator Rob Wonderling
 In the nearly 40 years that have passed since the first Earth Day back in the spring of 1970, the people of Pennsylvania have embraced an ethos of environmental stewardship that has made an enormous difference in the state of our environment.
Many trace the birth of the modern environmental movement to Rachel Carson’s extremely influential book, Silent Spring. Carson, who was born and raised in Springdale, Pennsylvania, was the first scientist to capture the public’s interest and raise its awareness about the damage being done to our natural environment by our modern economy.
Over the past four decades, the “environmental movement” has come to take many forms – ranging from highly corporatized lobbying organizations that employ all of the techniques and tricks that every other major, national special interest group does, to small, local groups focused on one specific environmental challenge located within a community.
I recently had the real honor of meeting with a group of grassroots environmentalists from the Heritage Conservancy who are literally working from the ground up to help make a real difference in our communities.
Founded in 1958 as the Bucks County Park Foundation, the Heritage Conservancy's mission is to preserve our natural and historic resources that are so essential to our region's quality of life by working with citizens, community groups, private landowners, municipalities, and state and federal agencies to promote and implement open space and natural resource protection.
In March, representatives of the Heritage Conservancy and I met at the Penbuck Farm at the border of Springfield and Durham Townships on the Bushkill Creek to discuss the importance of preserving open space and protecting our watersheds. With the help of farm owner Alyce Stick, the Heritage Conservancy is preserving hundreds of acres of farmland in this picturesque part of Pennsylvania.
As a state Senator, I’m pleased to be able to provide support to organizations like the Heritage Conservancy in their efforts to preserve farmland and improve the water quality of our rivers, lakes and streams. The clean up and restoration of the 80 square miles that encompass the Bushkill Creek Watershed in Northampton County is a great example of public and private entities working... |
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Casey, Specter Urge US Airways to Keep Focus on PA Flights and Jobs During Merger Talks
 After seeing numerous press reports indicating that US Airways is in “advanced” talks with United about a possible merger, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) today wrote to Douglas Parker, CEO of US Airways, urging him to keep Pennsylvania’s interests and workers of both airlines in mind.
“We write today to request that any merged entity maintain all pre-existing commitments to Pennsylvania and to the workers of both airlines,” the Members wrote.
Full text of the letter is below.
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