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Article: Obama joins ranks of Democrats supporting universal health care.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- January 25, 2007
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Byline: Mike Dorning
WASHINGTON _ Leading Democratic presidential candidates are showing a passion for ambitious plans to provide health care coverage to all Americans that the party has not shown since the Clinton administration's health plan turned into a political debacle in 1994.
The Republican takeover of Congress that year was credited in part to political opposition to the Clinton health care plan. Since then, Democrats have concentrated on more modest, incremental efforts to expand health coverage, such as subsidized insurance for low-income children and prescription drug coverage for the elderly.
But this year, the three most prominent ...