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On the recordJune 2, 2009
Part of the reform effort has got to be addressing the cost somehow, the cost of per capita health care and the growth in that rate.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke stresses the need to control health care costs in reform efforts.

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