While touting a program pushed by a committee of health care experts he appointed to offer affordable private-sector health insurance plans to Idahoans aged 25 to 40, the group most likely to be uninsured in Idaho, the governor said the committee's chairman, Stephen Weeg, headed a group of experts on health care who took "those recommendations on the road and listen(ed) to what Idahoans had to say." Then, he added, "I want to wish Chairman Weeg a full and speedy recovery from his recent successful heart surgery. Talk about going the extra mile to explore an issue!"

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