Wed
Mar 24 2010
11:18 am
By: Virgil Proudfoot
The Christian Science Monitor has a very good series explaining the impact of the policies in the new health-insurance reform bill in straightforward, non-political English.
You might want to forward this to friends and relatives infected by Faux News.
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