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Regarding the Application by Premera Blue Cross and its Affiliates to Convert to For-Profit Corporations

March 3, 2004

Consultant retained by Columbia Legal Services on behalf of The Premera Watch Coalition, the Washington State Hospital Association, the Washington State Medical Association, and the Alaska Blue Cross Conversion Task Force supplements earlier opinions based on his review of confidential and “attorneys’ eyes only” version of various reports.

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