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New program intended to curb rising health care costs in New Jersey

Premiums in 2016 equaled almost a third of median household income, and a May 2020 survey of more than 900 New Jersey adults found 77% worried about affording health care, the governor’s office said. The program aims to reduce the annual growth rate of health care costs to 3.5% in 2023, and down to 2.8% by 2027, said Marlene Caride, the state

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