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Obama film aims to re-write health care history
March 16, 2012
March 16, 2012
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hand on health care reform. Hanks explains how health care was "a crisis that others wanted to avoid" and that it was "crushing family budgets, choking business." "He knew he couldn't fix economy if he didn't fix health care," Hanks instructs us.
Not only is this not true as a substantive proposition -- the lack of affordable health coverage simply had nothing to do with the spiraling unemployment rate and shrinking economy. It's so at odds with what most Americans believed at the time -- which is that health care was a diversion from the country's economic problems rather than
hand on health care reform. Hanks explains how health care was "a crisis that others wanted to avoid" and that it was "crushing family budgets, choking business." "He knew he couldn't fix economy if he didn't fix health care," Hanks instructs us.
Not only is this not true as a substantive proposition -- the lack of affordable health coverage simply had nothing to do with the spiraling unemployment rate and shrinking economy. It's so at odds with what most Americans believed at the time -- which is that health care was a diversion from the country's economic problems rather than
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