Moreover, as Mark Pauly points out, here Medicare has an advantage over private insurance, by virtue of punitive power of federal law.

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Rob Mosbacher formerly served as the President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and Mark Green is Senior Director at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and a former Congressman and U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania.

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Secondly, as economist Mark Perry points out, since January 2010 government payrolls have contracted by 500k jobs while private sector employment has increased by more than 2.5 million jobs.

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Design teams work directly with clothing manufacturers to create private-label lines, avoiding the mark-up applied by apparel companies which normally serve as middlemen between retailers and manufacturers.

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Government spending is growing faster than the economy as a whole, but both private and public sectors still invest too little, planting a question-mark over those rosy growth forecasts.

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