Now even conservatives are giving universal health care some lip service.

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Yet politicians in both political parties pay varying degrees of lip service to the notion that the U.S. health care system is broken and that the allegedly bright minds who populate Congress should manage its overhaul with an eye on cheaper care.

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Though Mr Bush's stump speeches pay lip-service to other priorities such as the need to control health-care costs or curb frivolous lawsuits they are worryingly one-dimensional.

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