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Ben Domenech - March 04, 2010
President Barack Obama maintained in his speech on Wednesday and in a letter to Capitol Hill (see attached PDF) his intention to reach out across party lines, a token effort to make his health care legislation more bipartisan before ramming it through reconciliation, by adding four ideas of note from last week’s summit at Blair House. A closer look at the actual details of these ideas, however, shows that the White House has done very little indeed – and while it would be nice to say otherwise, the reality is that what President Obama is offering to Republicans is not an olive branch, but a rather insulting joke. And in the case ... (read more)
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The Future of Health Care in America: Roundtable
John Dale Dunn, M.D. has been a member of the teaching faculty at the largest army emergency department and has been dedicated to care of soldiers since 2003. He is a 37-year physician and 30-year attorney, and an expert in health care policy.
