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Opinion: Health Care Needs 'Public Option'

Nov 30th 2009 – 5:15PM

(Nov. 30) -- As the Senate takes up health care reform this week, a key sticking point will be the "public option" -- a government-run insurance plan that is supposed to help keep costs down by providing competitive pressure to private insurers. But a new report from the nonpartisan Urban Institute concludes that the...

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