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He could easily explain how this law marches us toward single-payer universal health care and rationing in the name of cost-containment.
Gingrich Can Repeal ObamaCare Bill McCollum 2012
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Blinder would throw such lavish support behind the price controls of ObamaCare under the euphemism of "cost-containment measures."
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If these provisions, sometimes characterized as cost-containment measures, are present in one of the linked systems, they will automatically be made available to participants in the other system.
Robert Stavins: A Wave of the Future: International Linkage of National Climate Change Policies Robert Stavins 2011
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Lieberman's other conditions were eliminating a government insurance program focused on home health care for the disabled, and strengthening cost-containment provisions.
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JAY: No, but the thing is that you have — but you have cost-containment in the public systems, and in Canada and France.
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Besides cost-containment, we need better efficiencies in the procurement process.
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If Democrats rejected this approach it would lay bare their bias toward sheltering unionized labor, which currently benefits greatly from employer-based coverage (via ‘cadillac’ insurance plans), and their opposition to serious cost-containment measures.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I’ve Been Given a Reason to Vote Republican 2010
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Some may be opposed because they really wanted cost-containment, but got expanded access to insurance and care instead.
Stephen M. Davidson: Why the Imperfect Health Care Reform Law Deserves Support -- 1 Stephen M. Davidson 2010
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And to make that miracle even less likely, House Republicans want to repeal every cost-containment measure enacted in last year's health-reform legislation.
Paul Ryan's Reverse Robin Hood Budget Alan S. Blinder 2011
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To the contrary, they want to repeal every cost-containment measure enacted in last year's health-reform legislation.
Robert Reich: Paul Ryan Still Doesn't Get It Robert Reich 2011
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