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All this week, The Takeaway has been speaking to different groups affected by the debate over health care reform. Today, we’ve compiled a mix of voices from young people wondering if they really need health insurance… or can afford it.
All this week we’ve been speaking to different groups affected by the debate over health care reform. Today we turn to young people. What we’ve been hearing ? from those generally healthy enough to risk choosing whether or not to have coverage ? is that they see it as a gamble. We’ve compiled a mix of voices from young people wondering if they really need health insurance… or can afford it.