He is campaigning on a platform of universal health coverage and says Gabon can not accept power passing dynastically from father to son.

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And their disappointment at not getting to universal coverage this year would be tempered by knowing that their leaders didn't give up on the idea and they lost a fair fight.

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Universal coverage might not be the cause of their inferior performance.

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"A number of groups--particularly biz groups that historically have not been strongly in favor of universal coverage--seem to be going that direction, " says Larry Levitt, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a Washington, D.

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