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Taxes & Budgets

PROLOGUE

Financial Basics: Taxes And Budgets

Let us assume, without recourse to pollsters or bookmakers, that there is a one-in-three chance that the next president of the United States will make universal health coverage a top-priority issue for the 111th Congress. The corollary would be that there are two chances in three that other priorities will assert themselves—war, deficits, a flagging economy—and that health policy initiatives will have to be scaled back to fit within finite executive and congressional capabilities.

It could be argued that universal coverage should not be attempted before strong steps toward controlling excess health spending have been taken. The lesson of coverage . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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