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Why Won’t Democrats Blame Hospitals?

Democratic presidential candidates paint insurers as the health-care bogeymen, letting providers off the hook.
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If you ask the Democratic candidates for president who is to blame for Americans’ health-care predicament, they swiftly jab their fingers at health-insurance companies. Sure, pharmaceutical companies have received some mention (mostly negative) in the Democratic debates, but so far, insurance companies have been painted as greedy money-grubbers that just don’t want Americans to have health

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