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While the national health insurance exchange advocated by President Obama and congressional leaders is sometimes described as a nationwide pool of health insurance providers, its major functionwould be to provide a platform for a government-run public healthplan. The result would be a massive erosion of private healthinsurance and consolidation of federal control of the financing anddelivery of medical services. ....

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