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Today's Globe: health care public option, home care aides

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White House officials and senior Senate Democrats at work on health care legislation are strongly considering a requirement for the federal government to sell insurance in direct competition with private industry, officials said yesterday, with individual states permitted to drop out of the system.

"Many home aides love the work and some love their elderly charges," columnist Renée Loth writes on the opinion page. "But make no mistake: it is a job, and the workers deserve a decent wage."

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