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The US Health Care Conundrum

The US Health Care Conundrum
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, accompanied by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), speaks with reporters following the successful vote to open debate on a health care bill on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 25, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
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The U.S. Congress has spent the last six months proving a truism: it is far easier to give the population an entitlement than it is to take it away—or even modify it.