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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Celebrities speak out... for threatened US health insurance executives

Think of them, for a change

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
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Peter is Business and Economy Editor at The Conversation and and a visiting fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. A former economics editor of The Age and economics correspondent for ABC radio, he co-hosts The Economists on ABC RN.
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