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	<title>SmartRemarks &#187; Max Baucus</title>
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		<title>Health care is making me sick</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the health care reform debate enters what appears to be the home stretch (albeit not for the first time), what Washington is offering us (the citizenry) boils down to a choice between bad and worse. The legislation now under consideration, both the Senate bill and the slight variation on same presented as &#8220;Obama&#8217;s bill,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baucus bill looks to be DOA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(And thank heaven for that.)
So Sen. Max Baucus&#8217;s Finance Committee has finally released a health care &#8220;reform&#8221; bill, months after every other committee charged with the task. (Or a &#8220;Chairman&#8217;s Mark&#8221; version of one, at least—i.e., something actually readable by laymen [pdf]).
The predictable result? It&#8217;s awful. Any Democrat who would vote for a bill that [...]]]></description>
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