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Sen. George Allen Touts Health Savings Accounts

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U.S. Senator George Allen of Virginia toured a Florence, S.C. hospital as he promoted using health savings accounts for the nation's uninsured.

Allen says an expansion of health savings accounts is one of the best ideas that has come along in years.

At the Carolinas Hospital System on Friday, he talked with department directors and the board of trustees about health care issues and visited patients in the cardiac care center.

He says he finds out a lot more about issues by talking with people involved in those issues.

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  The visit was part of a trip to South Carolina to help raise money for Ralph Norman, a fellow Republican vying to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. John Spratt.

Allen is a possible 2008 presidential candidate in South Carolina's first-in-the-South primary.

© 2006 Associated Press.

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