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      <title>Kit Bond's bad idea: Privatize Medicare.</title>
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      <excerpt>...last year, you'll spend $1.44 in 2019. Meeting with Post-Dispatch editors and writers last Friday, Republican Sen. Christopher &quot;Kit&quot; Bond of Missouri offered a simple health care fix: Let's allow health insurance companies to sell policies across state </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; and the top Republicans on the congressional intelligence committees, Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri and Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan. Copyright 2010 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not b</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...R-Ky.; House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; and the top Republicans on the congressional intelligence committees, Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri and Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan. The Republican lawmakers contended that the calls they received were s</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>There is first-hand account detail on Team Obama&amp;#39;s sudden disclosure &amp;amp; the politics, from Senator Christopher &amp;quot;Kit&amp;quot; Bond (R-MO, in a Feb. 4 letter to the White House that should be read in full: ...</excerpt>
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