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More people in US dealing with financial burden of health care costs
12-12-2006 · EurekAlert!An estimated 50 million people younger than 65 years in the US live in families that spend more than 10 percent of their family income on health care, an increase of more than 10 million people in the past decade, according to a study in the December 13 issue of JAMA.
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