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Ask the Expert: The Broken Individual Health Insurance Market
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Ask the Expert: The Broken Individual Health Insurance Market

Peter Harbage explains how the individual market is different from employer-sponsored insurance, and how health reform would improve health care for all.

How are individual market health plans different from employer-sponsored insurance? What affect does the broken individual market have on health care in general? And would health reform help mend problems with the individual insurance market?

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