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494 Blue Cross for hospital charges
"Health Insurance," Encarta.
495 preexisting conditions
Noah, "A Short History of Health Care."
496 twice took preliminary steps-in 1935
Kyle Noonan, New America Foundation, "Health Reform through History: Part I: The New Deal," May 26, 2009, http://www.newamerica.net/blog/new-health-dialogue/2009/health-reform-through-history-part-i-new-deal-11961.
497 feared the political opposition of the American Medical a.s.sociation
Ibid.
498 regarded as more pressing priorities
Paul Starr, "In Sickness and in Health," On the Media, August 21, 2009, http://www.onthemedia.org/2009/aug/21/in-sickness-and-in-health/transcript/.
499 offered a quixotic third opportunity to proceed but Roosevelt
Noonan, "Health Reform through History: Part I: The New Deal."
500 During World War II, with wages (and prices) controlled
Noah, "A Short History of Health Care."
501 extensive health insurance as part of their negotiated contracts
"Health Insurance," Encarta.
502 revive the idea for national health insurance, but the opposition in Congress
Starr, "In Sickness and in Health"; Noonan, "Health Reform through History: Part I: The New Deal."
503 employer-based health insurance became the primary model
Noah, "A Short History of Health Care."
504 new government programs were implemented to help both groups
"Health Insurance," Encarta.
505 needed health insurance the most had a difficult time obtaining it
Noah, "A Short History of Health Care"; "Health Insurance," Encarta.
506 believe that genetically engineered food should be labeled
Gary Langer, "Poll: Skepticism of Genetically Modified Foods," ABC News, June 19, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97567&page=1#.UGIUS7S1Ndx.
507 adopted the point of view advocated by large agribusiness
Tom Philpott, "Congress Big Gift to Monsanto," Mother Jones, July 2, 2012.
508 However, most European countries
Amy Harmon and Andrew Pollack, "Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food," New York Times, May 25, 2012.
509 genetically engineered alfalfa
Ibid.
510 which plants twice as many acres in GM crops as any other country