No one disputes the costs in quality of life and depleted health budgets of an obese population, but the quest for solutions gets diverted by ideological arguments around responsibility and choice.

没有人会质疑肥胖人群在生活质量上付出的成本和医疗预算的损耗，但寻求解决方案的注意力被围绕责任和选择的意识形态争论所转移了。

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This includes the impact of short-term lets on housing costs and quality of life for residents.

这包括了对居民短期租房的成本及其生活质量的影响。

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Among the new programs are accountable care organizations (ACOs), which will take responsibility for the costs and quality of care received by their patients over a set period.

开展试点项目的主要是一些“可信赖医疗组织”，这些机构会在规定的时间内对病人所接受治疗的质量和成本全权负责。

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So, with all this data and personal experience, why do we continue to reward a system that pushes life-at-all-costs instead of quality of life?

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The film highlights key water quality problems such as lack of access to safe water and sanitation, inefficient wastewater management in urban areas, water pollution caused by intensive use of nutrients and chemicals in agriculture, the invisible threat of new and emerging pollutants in water and the economic costs of water quality degradation.

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And I updated the Cabinet on the progress that we're making on the health insurance reform legislation that's moving its way now through the Senate, and reiterated the urgent need for us to get to the finish line and provide relief, both in terms of costs and the quality of coverage that Americans are getting in their health care.

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