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06/02/2009

Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson

Interesting to see the forward-looking numbers from CEA calculating how much the proposed 1.5% cost trend deceleration could save American families in the future (if the 1.5% reduction can be enacted, which is of course the hard part). Over the last five years, such a deceleration, if enacted, would have reduced a family's healthcare cost by $3,095 total. For more information, go to www. healthcaretownhall.com.


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