Unless you've been spending your summer vacation on a tropical beach with no television or internet access, you have seen that the public reception to Congress' proposals for heathcare reform have not exactly been well accepted. I mean, nut jobs showing up to town hall meetings with guns strapped to their legs isn't really the norm.So you would think that the Republicans who are against a public insurance plan are in control, right? Not so fast.
Congressional Democrats are now talking about splitting the healthcare bills into two parts so they can take advantage of a loophole called reconciliation.
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The first half of 2009 has whizzed by in what seems like a macroeconomic eye-blink. Wasn't 
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