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Medical Care Gets More Expensive

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“Rising health care costs, already threatening many basic industries, now consume 16 percent of the nation's economic output–the highest proportion ever, the government said yesterday in its latest calculation.” (Washington Post ^[1], Tuesday)

And government interference gets more pervasive.

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“Medical Care and Market Forces” ^[2] by Russell Roberts

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[1] Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901932.html

[2] “Medical Care and Market Forces”: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=5357

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