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Bush’s Insurance Plan Looks DOA

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
Jan. 24, 2007, Midnight

President Bush’s call for a major overhaul of the employer-based health insurance system is unlikely to see much, if any, action in the Senate this year in the face of near-universal opposition from Democrats and a GOP base still stinging from the Social Security debacle in the 109th Congress.

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