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As Congress returns this week, no task before it looms larger than reforming a health care system that costs more than any other country's yet leaves 46 million people uninsured.
Policymakers are converging on the idea of using a health insurance "exchange," in which insurers compete for business and can't reject people with medical conditions or charge them higher rates, and lower-income people receive subsidies to make coverage affordable. But policymakers also will have to make progress on the toughest issue - how to pay for health reform so it doesn't make the troubling fiscal picture even worse.See the full content of this document
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Health Care Reform: Tough Task Ahead
Nothing is more important for long-term fiscal stability than slowing the growth rate of health care costs in both the public and private sectors. Major changes in medical practice will be needed. But we don't yet know that much about what specific changes will slow ...
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