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Budget analysts say GOP bill would do little to expand health insurance coverage
Funny, I can't remember (or imagine) the Post taking so skeptical a line about the tax-and-spend disaster that is the Pelosi/Reid bill. So borrowing a trillion dollars in money we don't have to commit ourselves more deeply to a system we can't afford can't possibly be criticized -- and if PwC ...
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