At a town hall meeting at Howard University last week, Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, literally turned his back on a young woman whose mother died of cancer because she couldn’t afford the chemotherapy.
Misinformation hides the real cost of ignoring the uninsured
Monday, September 7, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT;
updated 8:10 a.m. CDT, Monday, September 14, 2009
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