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Cost confusion blamed for health vote failure

This content was published on Mar 11, 2007 Supporters of the people’s initiative vowed to fight on to reform the country’s expensive health system. Opponents said they were relieved at the outcome. In all, 71.2 per cent of voters rejected the reform, which would have replaced the current 87 private insurers providing mandatory coverage for basic health care and introduce premiums based in…