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This week in Washington, DC a political ad has started to run highlighting the story of Nataline Sarkysian, a teenager who required a liver transplant but was denied by an insurance giant and prematurely lost her life 9 hours later due to their negligence....
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"They seem unlikely to establish a significant market presence in many areas of the country or to noticeably affect federal subsidy payments," the report said." This is what the Congressional Budget Office said in a report today on the Baucus Health...
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Paul Krugman knocked it out of the park in his NY Times column "All the President's Zombies" of August 23, 2009 summarizing the current status of the 'public option' for health care: "It's hard to avoid the sense that a crucial opportunity is...
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