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California Nurses Raising the Debate

By Denis Campbell • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Features

The advert headline blared: “if he were anyone else he’d be dead.” He is Dick Cheney, age 67, Vice President of the United States, with a bionic reconstructed heart with built-in defribulator to maintain a regular heartbeat. The Vice President joined the government healthcare program in 2001 when he became a federal employee. Had he [...]