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Issues Domestic & Economy Health Care

Do More, Earlier, on Illness

At long last, everyone, including President Bush, agrees on the need to fix our broken health care system. By now, the statistics are depressingly familiar: almost 47-million Americans without medical insurance, health premiums rising four times faster than wages. Floridians understand this state of affairs better than most. Fully 24 percent of state residents under the age of 65 are uninsured, compared to 18 percent nationwide.

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This article was originally published in St. Petersburg Times.

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