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Ask the Expert: Can We Afford Not to Modernize the Health System?
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Ask the Expert: Can We Afford Not to Modernize the Health System?

Karen Davenport explains why health reform is crucial to balancing the budget and how quickly we could begin to see savings.

What does is mean to modernize the health system? Can the federal budget handle these additional investments? How quickly would we begin to see savings?

More on health care and the budget:

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