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For those already tired of the months of political bickering over the detail of health-care reform, the early months of 2010 will not be an easy time. For them, a personally-adopted complete news blackout may well be the only sensible route to survival; for the final fight over the details of the one common bill that the president will be asked to sign seems set to make the earlier fights over health-care reform in the House and the Senate feel like a walk in the park.