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Not worthy of our support without changes Working people have been fighting for health care reform in the United States for over a century. Despite the challenges to getting a good bill, we are not about to give up now. Today, our country stands alone in the developed world as the only nation not to provide comprehensive health care to all her people. It is a distinction without honor or even common sense. Sadly, in the U.S. ...
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