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On the recordMarch 29, 2011
So if you reduce the amount of health care costs or move that burden to a program that provides competition like an exchange, that lower burden on health care costs will mean that at least in theory employers will have the ability now to take some of that money into wages?
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Anthony Weiner
New York

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Weiner discusses how reducing health care costs could allow employers to increase wages.

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