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What's called Obamacare is an effort to mildly change this [health-care system], not change it as far as it should go or as much as the population wants it to go, but to make it a little better and a little more affordable.

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Noam Chomsky
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
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