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The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.

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Thomas Frank
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 21
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Kansas City
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