Increase in need for health care driving up premiums

CHAMPAIGN – For Darrin Lehman, getting healthy has become a high-wire act without a safety net.

Unable to afford health insurance for the last six years, he found out he has high cholesterol only when he sold his blood plasma for some extra cash.

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