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| 3/17/2008 | VITALE ANNOUNCES PLAN TO PROVIDE HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR ALL NEW JERSEY | ||
 | Senator Vitale's opening remarks at the news conference, discussing the problems of unaffordable health care in New Jersey and his plan to institute fundamental, ambitious reform to provide coverage for all New Jerseyans. - 11:16 | ||
| Senator Vitale answering a question about the possibility that employers will drop private insurance in exchange for their employees' enrollment in the State plan. - 1:51 | ||
| Senator Vitale answering a question about the funding of his plan coming from a phase-out of charity care, the program which subsidizes hospitals' cost in caring for the uninsured. - 1:41 | ||
| Senator Vitale answering a question on where he might see resistance to the health care reform plan. - 1:29 | ||
| Senator Vitale on setting up acute care centers for the homeless and undocumented, who would not be covered under the Phase 2 State insurance plan. - 1:31 | ||
| Senator Vitale on how the premium costs would be set in Phase 2 health coverage for all New Jerseyans. - 1:14 | ||
| Senator Vitale on the comparisons between his plan and the national universal health care proposals put forth by the candidates of both parties running for President of the United States this year. - 1:43 | ||
| Senator Vitale on funding his plan through existing FamilyCare and Medicaid surplus revenues in year one. - 0:42 | ||
| Senator Vitale on the cost of charity care and shifting the State's health care investment to his plan. - 0:54 | ||