In health fight, government and insurers are cast as villains
Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2009
The fight over healthcare increasingly seems like a contest about what scares Americans more, the government or insurance companies, according to this article from the Wall Street Journal. Republicans are conjuring nightmares of government bureaucrats blocking patients from life-saving treatment, while Democrats paint pictures of heartless insurance executives dropping or denying coverage.
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