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Article: Blame it on battered women. (O.J. Simpson case aftermath)(Pundit Watch) (Column)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- August 1, 1994
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I was going to write about health care, about the demonization of "single-payer" as socialized medicine that would force rationing and a behemoth bureaucracy on us (unlike our current system). I was going to make fun of the discussions around this breakthrough idea, the "employee mandate," the most preposterous, counterintuitive health-care gambit yet.
But then there was O.J. Simpson's lawyer and best friend on prime time, trying to get us to think about their man as if he were Harrison Ford in The Fugitive. And then there was the slow-speed chase, with Larry King trying to talk over the voices of the chopper pilots. So much for health care.
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