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Health care savings, coverage for all could lower spending $1.5 trillion over 10 years
12-18-2007 · EurekAlert!Guaranteed health insurance for all combined with several federal policy options to achieve health care system savings could result in $1.5 trillion in reduced spending over 10 years, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report prepared by Fund staff and the Lewin Group for study by the Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System.
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