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Patrick to back universal health plan

By Raphael Lewis
Globe Staff / September 28, 2005

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick will deliver a speech today endorsing a plan to establish universal health coverage in Massachusetts that is funded by hiking cigarette taxes 50 cents a pack and by creating a new payroll tax for employers that do not offer worker health plans. (Full article: 496 words)

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