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President Obama was back on the campaign trail Monday, using his election-style oratory to stump for a health-care overhaul that still awaits an uncertain fate in Congress.

As is the case routinely these days, the president took aim at health insurers. He lambasted them 22 times in a speech to a college audience near Philadelphia, according to the Washington Post. “How much higher do premiums have to rise until we do something about it,” Obama said in the speech punchline.

President Obama outlines his three-part proposal for health care reform in an address at the White House. Courtesy Fox News.

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President Obama outlines his three-part proposal for health-care reform in an address at the White House. Courtesy Fox News.

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President Obama will speak today on the state of the health reform bill, as Republicans and some Democrats continue to oppose it, John Bussey tells the News Hub panel.

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To hear some Democrats tell it over the weekend, the health-care overhaul has already passed Congress, leaving just some procedural matters to wrap up before the changes begin.

“Health-care reform has already passed both the House and the Senate with not only a majority in the Senate but a supermajority. And we’re not talking about changing any rules here,” White House adviser Nancy-Ann DeParle says in the Washington Post this morning.

As the dust settles on the White House announcement yesterday of its health-care overhaul, here are some further details worthy of note in the proposal:

As Washington dissects President Obama’s health-care plan and both parties prepare to grapple with health woes at Thursday’s summit, employers are saying their biggest cost problem lies at home.

President Obama plans to carry a proposal — an attempt to bridge differences between bills passed by the House and Senate last year — into a bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders on Thursday. WSJ’s Janet Adamy discusses the latest in Obamacare.

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President Obama plans to carry a proposal — an attempt to bridge differences between bills passed by the House and Senate last year — into a bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders on Thursday. WSJ’s Janet Adamy discusses the latest.

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President Obama has juggled the health-overhaul plans approved by the House and the Senate and added some twists of his own to come up with a White House proposal he hopes can win enough support for passage in both chambers.

The Obama plan is crafted mainly from the Senate-passed bill, but not entirely. Here are some of the big points in the proposal, as posted on the White House Web site: