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Why state-level single-payer health care efforts are doomed

  • Written by Simon Haeder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
imageSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at an Aug. 1 press conference, the first he held after the defeat of his health care bill.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

With members of Congress spending the month of August in their home districts, Republican efforts to do away with President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care...

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