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Bleak economy may help spur health care overhaul

November 29, 2008 By LOS ANGELES TIMES; The story was supplemented with reports from The Associated Press and Bloomberg News.

WASHINGTON-When Barack Obama becomes president in January, health care reform will join a list of priorities crowded with two wars and an economy mired in one of the worst slowdowns since the Great Depression.

But the bleak environment paradoxically might spur the kind of costly, sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system that has been elusive for decades, many political strategists,...

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