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Health Reform and Nick Bath

Nick Bath is the senior health-policy aide to Senator Pat Murray (D) of Washington. I met Nick several times when he was a health-policy aide to now retired Senator Tom Harkin (D) of Iowa.

Nick is a Harvard law graduate and a classical pianist (according to his bio), and he reminds me in both looks and mannerism of British actor Hugh Grant when Grant was a younger man.

Senator Murray is one of the primary health-care advocates and strategists in the Senate. Because of my previous association with Nick and Senator Murray’s important health-care advocacy, I compose the following letter to Nick regarding the current health-care crisis and unknown future of health care, which evolved from the recently failed partisan attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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