"There is intellectual acceptance that health care is a problem and that it costs too much, " says Graham Gillette, who runs his own public relations strategy company in Des Moines, Iowa.

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The biggest problem, it seems, is the acceptance of the very concept of online learning.

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But the problem is that no matter what level of acceptance these people achieve, it's never enough.

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Mr. MILLER: To be honest, a lot of the acceptance speeches in Sci-Tech, there's more of a problem of them being too short sometimes.

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