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Ignorance Unbound in the Health Care Debate

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Arkansas Times | September 11, 2009

Among the most persistent and far-fetched of modern myths is the one that says government is always wasteful and inefficient, and the private sector never is. We've seen this mantra repeated in this summer's debate over health care, as fearful and unenlightened citizens inadvertently reveal that not only do they not know how the various programs run, they don't know who's running them.

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Tags: Health Care Reform, government programs, private sector, health care, waste

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