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Healthy Skepticism

With all of its good, one thing the state's new universal insurance plan can't cure is our own stupidity.

By TOM KEANE
October 8, 2006

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I spend a Sunday stretched out on the couch watching TV, drinking a few beers, and scarfing down some nachos, all the while thinking how great it will be once the state's universal health insurance plan goes into effect next July. Finally, we're all going to be healthy. (Full article: 718 words)

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