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Health care champion’s twin battles offered a bitter irony

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By Lisa Wangsness
Globe Staff / August 27, 2009

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All year, a bitter irony suffused the agonizing health care negotiations on Capitol Hill: Just when legislation guaranteeing affordable health care for all Americans appeared to have its best chance of passing in years, its greatest champion was dying. (Full article: 948 words)

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