Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation director of health care and fiscal policy studies, reacts to executive director Michael Keough’s first-year progress report for Inclusive Health, North Carolina’s high-risk health insurance pool. Coletti offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 353).
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