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Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
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You know the good features in the Affordable Care Act. You know Republicans want to repeal it. Fine, so “tell me something I don’t know”.
REPUBLICAN PROPOSALS
For instance, did you know that Nixon proposed a comprehensive health reform plan in 1974, or that Republicans countered Clinton’s health reform with their own in ‘93? What were some of their reforms?
Start with the ever-popular individual mandate. Republicans were strongly for it. Now they are solidly against it. Banning exclusions due to pre-existing conditions? They were for that before they were against it. Continue reading →
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