That's because plans in New York are priced with the assumption that you must be sick or you wouldn't need health insurance.

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Apple pundits were quick to infer that Chief Executive Steve Jobs must be sick after the computer maker said Tuesday that he won't be speaking at Macworld in January and this will be the company's last appearance at the conference.

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And what about the new policy supremo, Jo Johnson (who must be heartily sick of seeing his career discussed purely in terms of its implications for big brother Boris), what will his role be?

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Or that, if one family were held to have driven a child to act unspeakably, then all families must be seen as sick and vicious?

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Health care must be more data driven and about wellness, not sick care.

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And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice -- not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

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