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February 13, 2012
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Irony of Basic Health - A Role Model Getting Dismantled
by Keith Seinfeld, KPLU Science and Health Reporter (2009-12-14)
Dr. Kimo Hirayama discusses routine preventive health care concerns with a young patient and her father at Seattle's International Community Health Services. Photo courtesy ICHS.
SEATTLE, WASH. (KPLU) - The survival of Washington's Basic Health Plan is in doubt--and the timing couldn't be more ironic. Congress is closer than it's ever been to creating a universal health care system, with insurance subsidies for millions of the uninsured. But, as that debate drags on, Washington state's own budget crisis is cutting-off insurance for thousands of residents. KPLU science and health reporter Keith Seinfeld has the story:

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