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Insurers Eat Reform
The "fix" that Congress was considering was upset by Brown's election in Massachusetts, the 60th vote was lost and with it the power of the Democrats and the President.
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"to inform. (The desired reader reaction: I didn’t know that!) ..... persuade. (Yes, I see the light!) [and otherwise] help people see things in unexpected ways. (I never thought of it that way!)"
Keller, Bill "The Latest Evolution of the Review" (NY Times 6/16/11)
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