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Sick of SCHIP

Submitted by Avocats, Aug 11, 2007 21:37

"Free" health coverage for people who earn more than twice the poverty level? My family pays more than $14,000 a year for health insurance, and it keeps going up because half the country has decided not to bother to buy it (but they have cars, TVs, expensive sneakers). I'm tired of carrying them and tired of them complaining.


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