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Rising Cost of Health Care, Uninsured Tops Florida Legislators' Agenda.

By Phil Galewitz, The Palm Beach Post, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 29--Starting next week in Tallahassee, Florida lawmakers plan to attack rising health costs that increasingly hurt businesses and drain their employees' wallets, and add to the number of uninsured statewide.

Against this backdrop, the various players in the health-care industry will battle each other over money. Hospitals will fight the health insurers over a proposal to limit what a health insurance plan covers for emergency care at hospitals not included in the plan;

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