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Fix Health Care Now, Remove Warts Later

Arnold Hamilton - October 4, 2009 0

BY FROMA HARROP “Rome was not built in a day,” Montana Democrat Max Baucus said with resignation after the Senate committee he heads voted to reject a “public option.” A government-run health plan that would compete with private insurers’ offerings, the public option is a means to curb spiraling health care costs. It’s more than […]

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‘Socialism’ And The Senate Sham

Arnold Hamilton - October 4, 2009 0

BY JOE CONASON Listening closely to the politicians with the most clout in the debate over health care, it is startling to discover how little they actually seem to know about the subject. Ignorance rules, even among the bipartisan group of senators known as the “Gang of Six,” who supposedly have immersed themselves in the […]

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