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Air date:
Fri, 03/26/2010 - 12:00am
Single payer health care & student loans
President Obama plans to sign the health care reform bill into law this Tuesday.
After months of back-and-forth and compromise, the reform bill barely resembles the original proposed by key members of the Democratic party last Fall.
What it does contain, however, is an overhaul of the federal student loan system into what is essentially a single-payer system for student loans.
KBOO’s Keith Mages interviewed Professor Sheldon Laskin, who says that if a single payer system is possible for student loans, it should also be possible for health care:
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