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Still waiting for health care reform debate to start
Quick ReadDo facts really matter anymore?
Photo credit: Getty Images | Americans receive dental care from volunteer medical staff who are offering free medical, vision and dental services to those without health insurance and in need, during an event sponsored by the Remote Area Medical (RAM) organization in Los Angeles. Aug. 13, 2009)
Do facts really matter anymore? Not so much in politics.
We've just had a spirited week of political debate over health care reform.
Which sounds OK. Only hardly any of it had much to do with how we might reform health care. The discussion, if you can call it that, has been all but hijacked by angry slogans, incendiary half-truths and unsupported assertions, many of them utterly devoid...
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