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In Illinois, a Similar Fight Tested a Future President
From a back-row seat in the Illinois Senate chamber, Barack Obama listened silently as political adversaries mocked his health-care reform bill: Socialized medicine. Hillarycare redux. Too expensive. Back-door route to a single-payer system.-
By Michael D. Shear and Ceci Connolly