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I Am Risk

Bringing down health care costs is supposed to rest, in part, on "personal responsibility." Yet, when it comes to getting health insurance, some of us have to pay more money or are denied coverage all together for just being who we are. Reporter Sarah Varney goes looking for an actuary to tell her why.

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