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• The cost of health insurance

  The cost of health insurance

  We may be blessed if the Supreme Court strikes the individual mandate, so we can have an honest discussion about financing health insurance with taxes like police and fire protection. A health crisis will strike us far more frequently than, and just as randomly as, fire or crime.

  We are all created equal and should have the same dignified access to health care regardless of income or station in life. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, "of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman."

  Public financing would satisfy liberals because it is the fairest way to raise revenue, and allowing prequalified, highly regulated nonprofit insurance companies to administer claims might satisfy conservatives. The caveats are the insurance companies must accept all applicants and place them in a single-risk pool and the medical community must accept all insurance plans.

• Fresno State enrollment freeze will hurt qualified students, official says

  Fresno State enrollment freeze will hurt qualified students, official says

  A high-ranking Fresno State official said Tuesday he was "disappointed" the university would have to close its doors to qualified students by freezing enrollment for spring 2013.

• UC Merced program honored

  UC Merced program honored

  WASHINGTON -- Federal lawmakers on Thursday saluted a University of California at Merced venture that may help keep the rural campus safer than most.

• High-speed rail board OKs hybrid Valley route

  High-speed rail board OKs hybrid Valley route

  The California High-Speed Authority approved a hybrid route for the Merced-to-Fresno route during its board meeting Tuesday in Merced.