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The limits of ‘bidencare’

EMOCRATS HAD HIGH HOPES FOR HEALTH CARE. After winning big on the issue in the 2018 midterms, Democrats swaggered into 2020 convinced they had a mandate to transform the industry. The only question was how best to do it. In the Democratic primary, Joe Biden’s plan to add a government-run “public option” for health insurance to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) emerged as the moderate

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