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Socialized Medicine: It's Back

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Harry and Louise have had a change of heart. Thirteen years after television ads from the insurance industry featuring the fictional middle-class couple helped kill the Clinton health-care plan and make universal coverage politically radioactive, comprehensive proposals for expanding coverage to millions of uninsured Americans are flowering again inside the Beltway and around the country. (Washington Post ^[1], Monday)

Bad ideas never die. They just get repackaged.

FEE Timely Classic
Nationalized Health Care Will Cut Costs? It Just Ain't So! ^[2] by Gene Callahan and Robert Murphy

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[1] Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/21/AR2007012100878.html

[2] Nationalized Health Care Will Cut Costs? It Just Ain't So!: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=4707

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