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Rep. Josh Morris, R-Turner, is a small businessman and longtime member of the Legislature’s Health Coverage, Insurance, and Financial Services Committee.

From rural hospital closures to extremely high costs, health care in Maine is facing serious challenges.

But, I believe the solution to these pressing problems is not a so-called single-payer government-run health care system, despite what another BDN reader recently argued in a September column . A single-payer system would limit access to care for Mainers and carry a price tag that the state can ill afford to pay.

State government-controlled health ca

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