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Washington Basic Health, the state's health care plan available on a sliding scale to people making under $22,800 a year, is feeling the budget squeeze already; the program will stop filling half of the slots that open up for new applicants starting December 5th, this Friday. The aim is to reduce the number of people covered by 7,700. We'd usually be worried about this, as several of our friends are covered by Basic Health and we expect to need the program ourselves in the near future, but our radical left buddy tells us health insurance is all a big scam anyway and even if it weren't, Obama probably came up with a great plan to fix this problem before anyone knew it was even an issue. Our president-elect is just that good.