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Strange Bedfellows? Group Unites Old Foes in Hunt for Health Fix

  • United States of Care wants to get politics out of health care
  • ‘Common pain’ of U.S. health system brings groups together

Some big names in health care want to fix what they see as a broken system. First, they are mending fences.

Last year, a ferocious partisan battle left the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature health law, fractured but largely intact. Andy Slavitt, a former top health official in the Obama administration, was one of the fiercest defenders of the law, rallying his nearly 200,000 Twitter followers to fight Republican efforts to overturn it.