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Sick

Published December 28, 2009 at 5:00 AM PST

The health care reform legislation is still struggling to get out of the Senate. Will it die in committee or die of compromise? Journalist Jonathan Cohn, author of Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price, joins us to give us his take on why reform is needed. He also gives some of the claims and counterclaims about costs a truth test.

Links

  • Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price
  • TNR: Jonathan Cohn: Living With Another Public Option Compromise
  • TNR: Jonathan Cohn: Republicans Love Medicare, Except When They Don't

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