Vitter’s Devious Plan

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One of the great, too-little-considered mysteries of modern Washington is that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) was actually a Rhodes Scholar. Recently, in order to explain the seeming contradiction between his opposition to health care reform and his support for reimporting drugs from countries with national health care systems like the Dems want in the US. Vitter says it’s part of a long-range plan to bankrupt the health care systems in those other countries and force them back to a USA style free market system.

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