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Melbourne Herald Sun | Jun. 5, 2009 (News Report)

Major US, Canadian and British life and health insurance companies have billions of dollars invested in tobacco companies, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine said Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics, Business, Living, Health
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Posted by: Posted by Glenn LaBauve - Jun 5, 2009 - 9:33 PM PDT
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 by Glenn LaBauve - Jun. 12, 2009

A report on the report in NEJOM on the hypocracy of the health insurance industry.

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