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Clinton’s utopian health care dreams are obviously politically impossible

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Carl Beijer
Jan 17, 2016
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An endless parade of starry-eyed utopians have spent the last several days advocating for Hillary Clinton’s health care plan. As a lifelong progressive, I am of course very sympathetic towards any plan to bring affordable health coverage to all Americans. But as a savvy, pragmatic realist with both of my feet firmly on the ground, I fear that Clinton’s …

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