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Anita Hartke for Medicare for All

Sun, 10/19/2008 - 4:49pm — DCblogger

The Democratic Wave: Could It Carry Anita Hartke ?

Another issue that Hartke is passionate about – and that she picks up from where her father, who helped draft the original provisions for Medicare, left off – is health care. She supports H.R. 676, a bill to provide for comprehensive health insurance for all U.S. residents. In essence, the plan calls for the conversion of for-profit health providers into non-profit providers if they choose. Private plans and providers could still exist and opt out, but in essence, the federal government would become a public health insurance provider leaving the administration of health services in private, but non-profit, hands.

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her father helped draft the original medicare

By hipparchia on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 5:32pm

how cool is that?

i got a kick out of the photos of the energy conference -- at the gas station.

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