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"About 75 percent of spending, for instance, goes to taking care of chronic disease."

Read about it and get the facts at Factcheck.org.

I'm quite sure any bill put together by politicians will be full of provisions aimed at pleasing powerful special interest groups, but people need affordable health insurance. Is the health care bill a good first step? I don't know, and it will be hard to tell until it all shakes out.

It's definitely been interesting to see the hatred generated during the drafting and the passing of this bill. Can't we all just get along?