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Workers Paying 36% More For Health Insurance

HeadlineSep 28, 2004

And a new report from Families USA has found that workers are paying 36 percent more for health insurance than they did four years ago. Some 14 million people now spend at least a quarter of their income on medical costs. About 85 million were not insured for some period of time over the past year. Meanwhile the uninsured rates for Latinos has jumped to 61 percent.

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