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        "title": "Nearly 1 in 4 workers are at higher risk of contracting severe COVID-19",
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        "summary": "The report recommended that employers use testing and work-from-home measures where possible to reduce the risk to elderly workers and those with pre-existing conditions.",
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        "summary": "The report updates a March 30 analysis commissioned by AHIP, and posits a reduction in COVID-19 costs.",
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        "summary": "Proposed legislation would place a 1% fee on premiums collected by nonprofit health insurers and 2.5% fee on for-profit carriers.",
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        "summary": "Despite the savings, however, even the rosiest prediction would include just an 8% drop in the uninsured rate.",
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        "summary": "The difference in medical costs between a 20% infection rate and 80% highlights the importance of social distancing.",
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        "summary": "A woman was sued by a Colorado hospital seeking more than three times what it had already been paid for her surgery. ",
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