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The prevailing assumption throughout the healthcare debate was that Republicans were a monolith â€" all of them rich, well-to-do whites who themselves, of course, couldn’t possibly have known anyone who lacked health insurance â€" not even anyone from the huge swath of poor whites who lack it â€" and that their opposition to running a healthcare system for more than 300 million people out of Washington couldn’t have stemmed from a different understanding of economics or public policy, but instead necessarily had to have been motivated by the drive to keep minorities out of their hospitals.

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