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Senate dems’ health bill unveiled

August 14, 2013Global Politics

Senate Democrats unveiled their health care bill yesterday – a massive tome of more than two thousand pages that the non-partisan CBO estimates will cost $849 billion over ten years. That’s below the limit of $900 billion that President Obama set – and a figure that would actually decrease the deficit. Drafters of the bill […]

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