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      <excerpt> Rep. Ron Kind says that isn&amp;#39;t true and a big misconception is that health care plans for lawmakers are given away freely. In fact, Kind says he doesn&amp;#39;t ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> US Rep. Ron Kind says he&amp;#39;s confident that health care reform will get done - and that it will include the kind of reforms to Medicare reimbursement that ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...always felt, if we're going to do entitlement reform, we have to do a better job of means-testing the program,&quot; said Rep. Ron Kind (D., Wis.). &quot;Are we really going to have Warren Buffett pay the same and get the same benefit as everybody else?&quot;Another n</excerpt>
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