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Fact Check: Does McCain really want to deregulate health care?

 
Does McCain really want to deregulate health care? The statement: "Now this 'Great Deregulator' wants to turn his attention to health care. …John McCain says he wants to do to the health care system what Washington's done to the banking system. … The radical idea that government has no role to play in protecting ordinary Americans has [...] (link)

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