Obamacare may be politically polarizing, but much less controversial is the vague sense that 0nly the federal government can prevail as the health care provider of last resort.

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Responding to Baucus, Sebelius pointedly noted that Republicans in Congress last year blocked funding for carrying out the health care law, and she had to resort to raiding other legally available departmental funds.

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But the complicating factor in all this is the Health Minister's statement to the effect that in the last resort, families would wield some sort of veto - but based on what?

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But how much can one expect from sprawling, chaotic India, where patients often live miles from roads and the public health system, notorious for absentee doctors and missing drugs, is a last resort, even for the poor?

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People who continue working and who receive health benefits from an employer are actually penalized: the employer plan becomes the payer of first resort.

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Despite the health benefits, many people don't want to spend 40 to 50 minutes cooking brown rice, so they resort to quick-cooking brown rice, which can take only five to 15 minutes to prepare.

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