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Health Care | Conservatives worry that the cost of a government health plan can go in only one direction | Edward Lee Pitts

Associated Press/Photo by Charles Dharapak

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The last time a Democratic White House tackled health-care reform on the massive scale now being talked about by President Barack Obama, the plan was dubbed "Clinton-care," and it was ultimately derailed by two people named Harry and Louise.

Starring in a series of commercials paid for by the health insurance lobbying group, the dejected-looking middle-class couple sat at their kitchen table worrying that government bureaucracy was about to intrude on their health coverage.

Flash-forward to today's debate: Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island rose at a recent White House summit on health care and declared that the situation is too dire to allow that to happen again.

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