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Hospital Cutbacks Threaten Care for the Poor

NPR
Published November 26, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Commentator Laura Novak describes the health care miracles she's seen while volunteering in the intensive care nursery of one California hospital. Now it's facing cutbacks from the state and the federal governments for the care of uninsured patients.

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