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		<title>Opinion: Hard work is being done to try to trade one bad health care system for another</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="300" height="169" src="https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Large_Clark-County-Today-15317-elizabeth-new-hovde-health-care-300x169.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Elizabeth New (Hovde) cautions that efforts to create a universal, taxpayer-financed health care system in Washington risk replacing existing problems with new challenges tied to cost, access, and centralized control." decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Large_Clark-County-Today-15317-elizabeth-new-hovde-health-care-300x169.jpg 300w, https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Large_Clark-County-Today-15317-elizabeth-new-hovde-health-care-711x400.jpg 711w, https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Large_Clark-County-Today-15317-elizabeth-new-hovde-health-care-150x84.jpg 150w, https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Large_Clark-County-Today-15317-elizabeth-new-hovde-health-care-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Large_Clark-County-Today-15317-elizabeth-new-hovde-health-care.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>Elizabeth New (Hovde) cautions that efforts to create a universal, taxpayer-financed health care system in Washington risk replacing existing problems with new challenges tied to cost, access, and centralized control. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Opinion: Washington state’s latest universal health care commission scheduled to meet Nov. 30</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="300" height="169" src="https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/large_Clark-County-Today-Opinion-Washington-states-latest-universal-health-care-commission-scheduled-to-meet-Nov.-30-300x169.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center says ‘For lawmakers to convene yet another state commission to push imposing socialized medicine on the people of Washington state might be called the triumph of hope over experience.’" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/large_Clark-County-Today-Opinion-Washington-states-latest-universal-health-care-commission-scheduled-to-meet-Nov.-30-300x169.jpg 300w, https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/large_Clark-County-Today-Opinion-Washington-states-latest-universal-health-care-commission-scheduled-to-meet-Nov.-30-150x84.jpg 150w, https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/large_Clark-County-Today-Opinion-Washington-states-latest-universal-health-care-commission-scheduled-to-meet-Nov.-30.jpg 711w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center says ‘For lawmakers to convene yet another state commission to push imposing socialized medicine on the people of Washington state might be called the triumph of hope over experience.’
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