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663: How I Read It
Act Two

Know That You Are Unprecedentedly Negative

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When health care premiums went up in New York State, a bunch of people got mad and wrote letters to the state. Producer David Kestenbaum takes us into the raw world of these letters. (15 minutes)

By

David Kestenbaum

Song:

“To Whom It May Concern” by John Wesley Harding

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