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Essential health benefits suddenly at center of health care debate, but what are they?

  • Written by Simon Haeder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
imageLisa Schwetschenau, who has multiple sclerosis, shown in a photo in Omaha, Nebraska on March 16. She worries that she could lose some of her essential health benefits under the new proposed health care law.Nati Harnik/AP

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