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It's Not Just The Money: Cost Control In Cancer Care (Guest Opinion)
on July 15, 2011
DescriptionKaiser Health News reports "Health reform raises deep questions about the size and scope of government, about progressive taxation, about the individual mandate and more. It's easy to forget that cost control will be a huge challenge, no matter how these ideological matters are resolved. Finding the right combination of humanity and restraint will be particularly hard in addressing life-threatening or life-ending illness." Read Full Story
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