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The article, ``Alternative Health-Care Groups Push for `Choice' in Reform Bill,'' July 26, provides interesting and important information I have found nowhere else.

Many Americans for the first time are exploring the thought of health care from fresh perspectives.

Our whole nation is being roused to give deeper thought to the subject.

As we sort out the varied recommendations proposed for universal health-care legislation, your articles and editorials are enormously helpful.

Thank you for your consistent, journalistic standards. Nancy Dyson Shipp, Cambridge, Mass.

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