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Professor Shirley Johnson-Lans - Chair of Economics, Vassar College

WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Published June 28, 2012 at 3:45 PM EDT

For more on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on health care reform, WAMC’S Brian Shields spoke with Vassar College economics professor Shirley Johnson-Lans, author of The Health Economics Primer, who says the upholding by the court of the individual mandate requiring those who can afford it to buy health insurance is the backbone of the Obama plan.
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