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Good for the President, Not for the People?

Bush receives, dismisses state-run health care

By Heather McPherson, Newser User

Posted Jul 25, 2007 4:58 PM CDT

(Newser) – Even as Bush knocks “government-run health care,” San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Lazarus points out, he receives a generous helping of it: The president's colonoscopy last week was of course performed by first-rate taxpayer-funded professionals at a taxpayer-funded facility. Read full story »

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