"Rising health-care costs are undermining the ability of U.S. firms to compete and threatening good American jobs," said Len Nichols, director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation.

"Therefore, we must reform our health system not in spite of our current economic crisis, but rather precisely because of the impact health care has on American workers and businesses." LINK

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