By Rebecca Rosen Lum
Freelance Unit Chair
California Media Workers Guild
It withstood a fusillade of hyperbole by Republicans, a blitz of oppositional advertisements by the insurance industry, and the relentless internal chipping away of Democratic concessions.
But at last, a comprehensive health care reform bill has been signed into law, and many independent journalists [...]

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