Informal meeting pushes governor's plan

DANVILLE – Kim Thompson and her husband paid the health insurance for their adult son, Kyle Thompson, because his employer didn't provide a plan and he couldn't afford an individual one as a chef at The Great Impasta in Champaign.

For that reason and others, Thompson, of Danville, supports Gov. Rod Blagojevich's plan to provide health insurance for the uninsured in Illinois.

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