The Risks of Success: Watering Down The Public Option

By Madison Powers and CQ Guest Columnist

Posted October 29, 2009 at 12:00am

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Madison Powers writes occasionally for CQ Politics and is Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

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