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February 4, 2010

Feds will pay half of U.S. health care

  • The shift to a health care sector dominated by state and federal government is being speeded up by recession and aging Baby Boomers.
    • By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
    Associated Press Writer

    WASHINGTON — For all the hue and cry over a government takeover of health care, it's happening anyway.

    Federal and state programs will pay slightly more than half the tab for health care purchased in the United States by 2012, says a report by Medicare number crunchers released Thursday.


     
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