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What role should the government play in the health care?

The ACA roll-out has raised questions on where the government should draw the line in the personal welfare of its citizens. How does the new health care law complicate the ideas of individual rights and collective responsibilities?Jeffrey Brown talks to Jacob Hacker of Yale University and Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute.

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