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Private insurers get ‘free rein’ without public option, Democrats say
10.09.2009 | By Keith L. Martin
Omitting a government-run health insurance program from a Senate reform bill will give private insurers “free rein” to increase premiums and “drive up the cost of federal subsidies,” according to a group of Senate Democrats.
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