President Obama said Monday that rising health care costs threaten the lives and livelihoods of U.S. families, pushing again for a major overhaul and saying some opponents of his plan were playing politics.

NPR: Obama Presses Anew For Health Care Overhaul

President Barack Obama said on Monday that his new deficit reduction plan counted on higher taxes for millionaires and billionaires and a major overhaul to the tax code, something the Republicans have been calling for all year.

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