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elleng

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Wed Aug 1, 2012, 05:51 PM Aug 2012

Democrats, Republicans Offer Rival Views to Control Health Costs.

Democrats and Republicans agree that the next U.S. president will have to contend with rising healthcare costs that pose a growing, destabilizing burden for families, employers and government budgets.

But two articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday show how far apart each side stands on the question of what to do, ahead of a November election showdown between President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/08/01/us/politics/01reuters-usa-healthcare-costs.html?hp

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Democrats, Republicans Offer Rival Views to Control Health Costs. (Original Post) elleng Aug 2012 OP
Republican plan for cutting costs: death by the profit motive Bill USA Aug 2012 #1

Bill USA

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1. Republican plan for cutting costs: death by the profit motive
Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:50 PM
Aug 2012

For those who can't afford adequate health care(for each one of us who dies, health care costs go down):


[font size="4"]"I see our profit margin going up already!"[/font]

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