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news.yahoo.com - 5/10/2009
AP source: $2 trillion offered in health savings (AP)
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AP - Top representatives of the health care industry plan to offer $2 trillion in cost reductions over 10 years in a bid to help pass President Barack Obama's health overhaul.
google.com - 5/10/2009
The Associated Press: AP source: $2 trillion offered in health savings
— google.com — 4 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) Top representatives of the health care industry plan to offer $2 trillion... in cost reductions over 10 years in a bid to help pass President Barack Obama's health overhaul, a source familiar with the negotiations said ... (more) The Associated Press: AP source: $2 trillion offered in ...

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Health Care Industry Letter Challenges The CBO To Find Savings
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 5/11/2009
Health Care Industry Letter Challenges The CBO To Find Savings
— wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — This year’s effort to reform health care is the year of strange bedfellow coalitions. A number of... of industry-union-consumer group alliances like Better Health Care Together, Divided We Fail, The Health Care Dialogue and more, have already ... (more) Health Care Industry Letter Challenges The CBO To Find ...
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realclearpolitics.com - 5/15/2009
We Can't Afford a 'Public' Health Plan
— realclearpolitics.com — Does anybody really believe that adding 50 million people to the public health-care rolls will not cost... the government more money? About $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion more? At least. So let's be serious when evaluating President Obama's goal of ... (more) We Can't Afford a 'Public' Health Plan

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Say Anything:  Health Care Industry Trying To Get On Obama’s Good Side Before He Nationalizes Them

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Health Care Industry Trying To Get On Obama’s Good Side Before He Nationalizes Them
Say Anything — ... WASHINGTON – Top representatives of the health care industry plan to offer $2 trillion in cost reductions over 10 years in a bid to help pass President Barack Obama’s health overhaul, a source familiar with the negotiations said Sunday. ...

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That depends on what the meaining of "savings" is..
silentmajority09.blogspot.com 5/11/2009 — I was stunned to see this headline on MSNBC: Industry reps offer $2 trillion in health savings Cost reductions are part of a bid to help pass Obama's health overhaul. It sounds unbelievable, incredible even, that the capitalist pigs would make such a concession. Imagine the much maligned ...
That depends on what the meaning of "savings" is..
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