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Released: November 09, 2011
GOP sees disconnect between universal phone, healthcare coverage
Source: David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)
Conservatives tend to become apoplectic at the thought of the government requiring people to pay for health insurance or any form of public program designed to provide universal coverage.
Yet most of those same conservatives — including Republican lawmakers — are perfectly at ease with the idea of requiring that all phone users pay a fee intended to provide universal coverage for telecom services.
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