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Just about every candidate for president has come out with a health care plan. All of them try to reduce the ranks of the uninsured. Some address rising medical costs, malpractice rates, and other key problems in the health care system.

New Hampshire Public Radio wanted to find out what the health care system looks like for the people those plans are supposed to help.

Over the next six weeks, we present Profiles in Health Care. Through the stories of patients and practitioners, we explore the connections among people from very different walks of life. Today, we begin with a visit to the family practice of Dr. Dick O’Brien in Belmont. Names of patients in this story and some of the details of their illnesses have been changed.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Doug MacPherson has our report.