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SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW-UP | unhealthy system

Patrick intensifies state’s push to curb soaring health premiums

By Marcella Bombardieri

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 07, 2009

Governor Deval Patrick yesterday accelerated his administration's efforts to control spiraling statewide healthcare costs, warning that rising premiums threaten to crush families and businesses and doom Massachusetts' groundbreaking experiment with universal insurance.

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