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North Carolina commissioner raises red flag over Blue Cross change to a not-for-profit mutual; New Jersey activists sue to stop conversion.

The problems of America's health care system can best be addressedthrough market-based solutions. The evidence indicates that undernational health insurance, the promise of coverage becomes healthrationing, access to universal coverage means delays in access tocare, official fairness yields to favoritism by officials, freedomof choice becomes coerced conformity, and democratic deliberationis replaced by bureaucratic decision-making.

Today, nearly 44 million people will go without health insurance atsome point during the year; this number continues to grow at theastonishing rate of 100,000 each month.