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PROLOGUE

The Politics Of Health Reform: A Collection Of Perspectives

Does politics for all translate to health care for all? In a long and surprising year of primaries and caucuses, with unprecedented numbers of new voters, will health care reform claim top spot on a new president’s domestic agenda? Will all of the energy displayed this year be transformed into real legislative action in 2009?

The following Perspectives on the politics of health care reform start with hope for the future in the form of the Healthy Americans Act, a bipartisan proposal by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) that is gathering steam and cosponsors in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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