Reagan's cure for health care ills--keep the government's hands off.
The trouble with the medical care system, Republicans complain, is too much government interference. Beginning next month, the GOP will have a chance to put its ideas into practice--to remove "the straitjacket of federal programs," as the party's platform put it. That means, among other things, attempts to cut back on federal spending, dismantle some programs and encourage competition as a way of controlling costs.
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