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Employers Cut Back on Health Insurance
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NPR Morning Edition
08-30-2006
Employers Cut Back on Health Insurance
Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time: 11:00-12:00 PM
RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
The number of Americans without health insurance continued its steady march upwards last year. The annual report from the census bureau says just under 16 percent of Americans did not have any health insurance. The number was up more than a million from the previous year.
As NPRs Julie Rovner repo...
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