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WASHINGTON | Wed Nov 3, 2010 12:16pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative John Boehner, expected to be named the next speaker of the House of Representatives, vowed on Wednesday to repeal health care reforms pushed into law by the Obama administration.

"I believe that the healthcare bill that was enacted by the current Congress will kill jobs in America, ruin the best healthcare system in the world, and bankrupt our country," Boehner, an Ohio Republican, told a news conference. "That means we have to do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with common sense reforms to bring down the cost of health care.

(Reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Vicki Allen)
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Skylor wrote:
Yep, its cheaper to just let the working people die off. Hard to believe the working people want this but guess so.

Nov 03, 2010 12:44pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
shawngrggs wrote:
The best healthcare system in the world!!! As long as you don’t measure by standards such as number of people with access to health care, quality of health care available, average life expectancy, obesity rates, cost of basic health care, etc…

Gotta love that blatantly untrue propaganda!

Nov 03, 2010 1:12pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
Revolutionary wrote:
Good.

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