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"The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care."
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Source: Kent Greenfield (2011). “The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits”, p.10, Yale University Press
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