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• The children's health program is a model for what broader health care initiatives ought to look like.

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• By the time you read this, the bipartisan fling may be over.

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• A new report tells governments something they need to know--but would rather not hear.

• Bordering on Disaster
• BY: Jonathan Walters   |   July 2006
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