The world this week

摘要

Barack Obama unveiled a document that he hopes will form the basis of the Democrats' final health-care bill ahead of a televised bipartisan summit. It contains many of the proposals in the Senate version of the bill, but would cost more ($950 billion) and also set up a panel that could block steep increases in insurance premiums, such as the recently announced 39% rise to some insurance-plan payments in California.rnA few green shoots of bipartisanship were spotted on Capitol Hill. Ron Wyden, a Democrat, and Judd Gregg, a Republican, introduced a bill that would reduce the top rate of corporate income tax to 24% and end some special tax breaks for companies.