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that it is very significant that the identical persons who have exhibited unfairness, discrimination and inequity in their attack upon me are also the very persons that administer the Civil Service employees health plan. I am now very much concerned and I feel it's my obligation to inquire

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into whether or not other inequities have occurred in the administration of that plan. We have 25,000 more or less city employees, all dedicated public servants who rely upon the system for the most part for their health coverage. The purpose of the health service plan is to

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provide health services in the nature of insurance for those who would otherwise not be able to obtain it. Consequently, I would now like to inquire into exactly how that plan is being administered. When a public official is being attacked by a board or a commission, he

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or she is certainly entitled to inquire in detail how that department operates and what motivates its actions. I have no feud with anyone. But now that he has called attention to something that he has allowed to lie dormant all these years, there must be a reason