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Larry Arrington

The Politics Of Scarcity

By Larry Arrington and Brian Klepper, PhD, February 11, 2011 KFF Health News Original

The nation’s leaders must slog through the complexities and ideologies of the current political landscape in order to craft solutions that will shore up the American safety net and protect its weakest citizens.

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