Between 2000 and 2006, health care costs rose nearly five times the rate of inflation, causing many companies to shift more costs to employees or simply drop health coverage all together.

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Whether that financing comes through higher taxes, higher federal borrowing, or the Fed printing dollars and causing inflation, it all involves a drain in some way of resources that would be more efficiently and productively used in the private sector, guided by market incentives and competition.

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