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Shunning Single Payer, Obama Hosts Healthcare Summit

HeadlineMar 06, 2009

President Obama hosted a White House summit Thursday on reforming healthcare. Participants included doctors, health insurance companies, lawmakers and patients. Obama vowed to make passing healthcare reform a priority this year. Attendees included several lawmakers and lobbyists who successfully defeated former President Bill Clinton’s attempts to partially reform healthcare in the 1990s. The summit has raised controversy over the administration’s apparent attempt to initially exclude any voices for single-payer healthcare.

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