In his upcoming State-of the-Union address, President Bush is expected to outline proposals for making health care more consumer driven. Henry J. Aaron, Brookings Senior Fellow, and Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation discuss why costs are skyrocketing and what can be done to rein them in.
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Health Care Reform
January 23, 2006