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A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Denver…

by David Sirota

BUTTE, Montana — Drinking a pint in Butte, Montana's M&M bar should be an entry in a "Things to Do Before You Die" book. Sitting in this historic watering hole that has been open 24/7 for most of the last century, you get to imbibe rich spirits — local beers and ghosts of ages past.

When I hit the M&M this week, though, the wood-paneled walls told fewer tales of copper kings like Marcus Daly and hometown heroes like Evel Knievel, and more stories of new po ...

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Posted by: Bret Hughes
Comment: #1
Sat Aug 9, 2008 11:51 PM

David, please don't use the phrase "universal health care", it could mean anything from having people being forced to individually buy health insurance (sounds like an effective monopoly to me; btw, this is primarily Clinton's plan for everyone, and Obama's for parents) to single-payer health care (government pays for it all). The phrase "single-payer" indicates you know what the people want and you are not fooled by the rhetoric coming from the Democrats trying to indulge the insurance companies by tricking people with the single-payer seemingly similar word "universal".

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