A decade after "Hillarycare" ignomini-ously imploded, health care is once again at the top of America's domestic agenda. Medical insurance prices for private-sector employees rose by 12.7% from spring 2001 to spring 2002, the largest increase since 1990, and double-digit rises are expected for the foreseable future. Employers are passing on more of their health-care costs to their workers, who pay more for fewer benefits. Some 1.4m Americans lost their health insurance in 2001.
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