1.0 link 218229 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-gleckman/the-flap-over-public-heal_b_218229.html Note to critics of the public plan option for health insurance: This debate is over. You lost. In 2007, more than 45 percent of all medical costs in the U.S. were paid by government, vastly more than the one-third funded by private insurance.

The role of government insurance has been growing rapidly for more than four decades, since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. From 1970-1990, during a period when the White House was occupied...

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