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Health Care Reform

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Columnist Criticizes Reform Law for 'Crazy Spending'

Syndicated columnist Jay Ambrose argues that the federal health reform law's contraception coverage provision "sums up part of what [the law] is about: interventions helping some by the most autocratic, complicated, ineffective means possible while hurting many others." He writes, "But Obamacare is also about crazy spending," adding, "Are there lifeboats for this fiscal Titanic of ours? We could go under."



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