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25% in the Valley lack health insurance - Local - fresnobee.com

10/04/2009 by Pastor Tom Sims

Valley health care comes down to personal needs While emotions can boil over at health-care reform town-hall meetings patients at doctors' offices in Fresno have a calmer view: They agree that the system must change. But few know details of the complex plans that inspired fierce political debate. Instead, they're focused on their own health problems.

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