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Published 1/17/2009 by Amy Goldstein at Wash Post In Congress
Congress and the incoming Obama administration are contemplating profound shifts in the government's role in health insurance to try to alleviate a significant ripple effect of the damaged economy: Americans losing health coverage as they lose jobs.
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