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Healthy Skepticism
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.
Suburban Spotlight: Health benefits, fuel prices challenge our towns (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Town officials are blaming increased budgets and taxes in 2007 on higher health insurance costs and energy-related expenses.
The World from Berlin: A Stillborn Health Care Reform?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised sweeping reforms to health care reform. Her so-called grand coalition has finally reached an agreement, but observers wonder whether the reform package — and the coalition itself — are viable.