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“Democrats lost a big test vote on health care legislation on Wednesday as the Senate blocked action on a bill to increase Medicare payments to doctors at a cost of $247 billion over 10 years,” the The New York Times reports. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, “needed 60 votes to proceed. He won only 47. And he could not blame Republicans.

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