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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

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Elizabeth Edwards
Age: 61 †
Born: 1949
Born: July 3
Died: 2010
Died: December 7
Attorney At Law
Attorneys In The United States
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Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
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