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WASHINGTON, June 21 (Reuters) - Growing worries over budget deficits and government intervention could jeopardize President Barack Obama's proposed healthcare overhaul in Congress as lawmakers bicker over costs and strategies for covering the uninsured.

Obama and his fellow Democrats, who control Congress, have enormous political capital invested in succeeding at providing affordable medical coverage to the millions of uninsured Americans, after decades of failed efforts by others, including the previous Democratic president, Bill Clinton.

But opposition is building even as a group of senators tries this week to negotiate a proposal they hope will quiet critics and win bipartisan support.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said he was confident he could craft such a bill.

"We're working together and we're getting closer and closer to a deal every day," he said in a statement. "I'm as confident as ever we'll deliver a bipartisan health care reform bill to the President this year."

But Baucus is working with only few Republicans and there are no guarantees he will succeed.

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