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Health care reform has long been a hard sell in America

WASHINGTON - When President Bill Clinton stood before Congress on Sept. 22, 1993, to make a speech laying out his version of "health care reform," six in 10 Americans surveyed supported his proposal.

His plan, he said, would finally expand health insurance coverage to the more than 40 million uninsured people and would rein in the fast-growing expense of providing care.

But after the...

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