Minister Elisabeth Guigou indicated on Wednesday that she was in favour of a reassessment of health workers' pay, but called for a "spirit of dialogue and compromise".

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In this spirit, two of the proposals the Administration put forward as part of our health care reserve fund involved better incentives for reducing hospital readmissions.

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In that spirit, Michelle and I wish you and your families a sweet year full of health, happiness, and peace.

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These entrepreneurs and innovators embody the spirit of a country that continuously innovates its way to an ever brighter future, and can take health data and turn them into amazing new products and services that are already helping millions of Americans, contributing to economic growth, and creating jobs.

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We need that same spirit of cooperation and bipartisanship when it comes to finally passing reform that will bring down the cost of health care and give Americans more control over their insurance.

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When the day comes that, in the true spirit of entrepreneurial free market enterprise, someone who wishes to leave their job (and their employer provided health benefits) to begin their own business discovers that the acne they suffered as a teenager prohibits them from getting a health insurance policy, that is the day such an individual will understand what has been lost.

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Stevenson's short life was spent, after Edinburgh, in ceaseless journeying, purportedly for the sake of his poor health periodically his lungs would bleed but probably also for some ease of spirit and to escape from the fettered Presbyterianism at home.

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