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Fran Kritz is a passionate healthcare journalist who has covered consumer heath and health policy for decades for publications that include the Washington Post, NPR.org and Kaiser Health News. For six years, Fran was the senior editor of a public health blog, NewPublicHealth, hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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