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  2. Joint survey, NFIB and Wells Fargo, Study Shows Small Business Concerned About Health Care, Allen Roberts, INC.com (August 6, 2004)
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  10. The Great American Fraud, Part IV, The Subtle Poisons, (December 2, 1905), Samuel Hopkins Adams, Collier’s for December 2, 1905
  11. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  12. Jennifer Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003
  13. Jamie Court, Executive Director – Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, Will Society Allow Baby Boomers' Health Care Savings To Go Bust? (August 2, 2002)
  14. The Concord Coalition Media Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (November 4, 1998) CONTACT: Craig Cheslog, Concord Coalition
  15. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Health Care Expenditures
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  20. Wired Magazine, (October 2003), Till Death Do Us Part, Joshua Davis
  21. American Medical Association website, Think It's Information? Think Again. It Could Be A Sales Pitch, Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, and Sara Taub
  22. Pushing Pills: Reining In Drug Advertising --- Backlash Is Brewing Among Companies Who Believe Flashy Ads Drive Up Costs, Thomas M. Burton, Wall Street Journal, (03/13/2002)
  23. Trends in Manufacturer Prices of Prescription Drugs Used by Older Americans, AARP website
  24. Kaiser Family Foundation, StateHealthFacts.org, a comparison of state by state utilization
  25. Michael Fumento, AIDS Spending: When is Enough, Enough?, Tech Central Station, (October 8, 2004)
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  27. Running a Gasoline Engine on Hydrogen Using Water, Drunvalo
  28. Buying from Canada could cost the state millions less, USA Today By William M. Welch.
  29. Missing pieces to the puzzle, NEWYORKTimes.com, Robert Pear, published (September 16, 2004)
  30. FDA Ensures Equivalence of Generic Drugs, denounces generic myths. Click here.
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    What You Should Know About Generic Drugs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska.
    The Rising Price of Health Care Part II, How Can We All Help Keep Drug Costs Down, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii.
    Congressman Pete Stark’s Press Release, Consumer Rip-Offs Must be Stopped.
  32. Generic Drug Price Mark Ups, Hampton Roads News Channel 3, Investigative Reports, Chris Hopkins.
    Drugstores marking up generic prescriptions as much as 2,700 percent, ABC Action News report.
  33. Medical Research has A ‘Black Hole’…Negative Results Often Fail to Get Published in Journals; Some Blame Drug Industry, Wall Street Journal, (June 4, 2004)
  34. Victoria Craig Bunce and J.P. Wieske, Exploding Mandates Help Explain Price of Health Insurance, Investor’s Business Daily, (August 26, 2004)
  35. Article on Malpractice insurance by Carey Hamilton in the Salt Lake Tribune, (April 11, 2004)
  36. A brief from the Utah Medical Association about the increased cost of medical malpractice in the state.
  37. Article in the Baltimore Sun News on (7/27/2003)
  38. Pennsylvania tort crisis: Lawmakers fiddle, doctors’ burn, Tanya Albert, AMNews staff, (January 12, 2004.) (Excepts).
  39. Marc Santora, Published: July 16, 2004, Lawyers Sue Hospital Group on Behalf of Uninsured, NewYorkTimes.com
  40. How do you boil a frog, A Line For You, Public Service for You in Singapore.
  41. Live to 100? Don't hold your breath, February 21, 2001.
  42. Antibiotic resistance a growing threat, WHO reports, Improper drug use to blame, (June 12, 2000), From staff reports, CNN.com.
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  45. Reducing The Cost Of Poor Quality Health Care, Through Responsible Purchasing Leadership, Midwest Business Group on Health in collaboration with Juran Institute, Inc, the Severyn Group, Inc. (2003).
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  49. THE EVOLUTION OF MEDICARE: From Idea to Law, by Peter A. Corning, A completed contract with the Social Security Administration's Office of Research and Statistics for a history of the developments in health insurance leading up to the passage of Medicare in 1965.
  50. An Unhealthy Tradition, Medicare Miscalculations, by Michael F. Cannon, (March 26, 2004), Institute for Health Freedom, Washington, DC.
  51. Tom Scully, former CMS Director, on the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, at the National Institute for Health Policy in Washington, DC (April 5, 2004). Click here.
  52. Joseph J. Wang, Unopened, Unused Prescription Drugs Destroyed at Taxpayer Expense, Health Law and Policy Institute.
  53. CDC's advice to doctors: Clean your hands, New guidelines emphasize the role of hand hygiene in reducing the spread of infection. Editorial. (Nov. 25, 2002.)
  54. New high blood pressure guidelines say start early, treat aggressively, The American Heart Association, Journal Report, (05/15/2003), click here.
  55. Three Truths About the Uninsured, Foundation for Health Coverage Education, a non-profit 501(c)3 private organization based in San Mateo, California.
  56. The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7JX. Click here.
  57. A Report on the Lawsuit Industry in America, (2003), the Manhattan Institute.
  58. Leap Frog Group: For Patient Safety, Rewarding Higher Standards.
  59. Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits (2004) Annual Survey.
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  61. The Cost of Health Insurance Mandates in Washington, Victoria Craig Bunce and J.P. Wieske, Council for Affordable Health Insurance, Washington Policy Center.
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