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The Strange Death of the Public Option

by Josh Marshall
03.15.10 | 6:22 am

They say the brave man dies only once, the coward a thousand times. Then there’s the Public Option, which seems to have lived and died probably nine or ten times over the last year. Brian Beutler looks at what’s behind its latest and probably final (in this legislative cycle) demise.

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