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Forty five million Americans lack health insurance.

Many times hospitals are the ones who end up paying the bills when people without insurance show up as patients.

In New Hampshire, those unpaid bills totaled about eighty six million dollars in 2004.

A group of union construction workers says hospitals are actually a part of the problem—by hiring contractors who don’t require laborers to have health insurance.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Kerry Grens has more.