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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.
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One Nation Under Medicare

By Derek Thompson

Jun 22 2009, 4:53 PM ET Comment

"That was pretty impressive, wasn't it?" President Obama said with a smile after he slapped a fly that was buzzing around him during an interview last week. "I got it. I got the sucker."

If only slapping around the players in the health-care reform debate were so easy. The annoying creatures he has to contend with this summer are the bickering stakeholders in a $2.1 trillion market that makes up 16 percent of the economy.



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