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The following comments were posted in response to Jonathan Thompson’s blog, “The shutdown hits the West harder.” Thompson considered the region’s high percentage of federal employees and uninsured. It’s not just feds who are furloughedThank you for pointing out that the furloughed employees are not all in Washington, D.C., and are not all “federal” employees. […]