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Her experience confirms support for health care reform

WASHINGTON

While many lawmakers spent the summer at raucous town halls to hear complaints about health care, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy learned firsthand what works, and what doesn't, in the health system - as a patient.

On July 28, the Democrat from Mineola underwent surgery at Winthrop University Hospital to fuse three vertebrae in her spine, ending nearly two years of severe pain.

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