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Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan holds a press conference in Bloomington to respond to a new study released by Harvard University. The study will appear in the December edition of the American Journal of Public Health and claims that one person dies in America without health care every twelve seconds – more than 45,000 people each year. We hear from Jay Bainbridge, a friend of the late Bloomington activist Libby Yarnelle, who says Libby might still be here if she had been covered by health insurance at the onset of her fatal illness. We also hear from Mavis Anderson, a local social worker who assists patients and families in crisis. But first, Bloomington emergency room doctor Rob Stone breaks down the toll our broken healthcare system takes on the American people as we go on-location to the county courthouse in this WFHB radio exclusive.