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Two health-care crises are slowly unfolding across urban and rural Utah.

More than 350,000 Utahns face the prospect of doubled health insurance premiums if Congress doesn’t extend Enhance Premium Tax Credits by year’s end.

Matt Hasbrouck, CEO of St. Mark’s Hospital in Millcreek, makes the stakes clear : Without the tax credits, a family of four earning $64,000 would pay $2,500 more per year for coverage — and the state could lose nearly 3,000 jobs and take a $335 million GDP hit.

“If these tax credits are allowed to expire,” Hasbrouck warns, “more U

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