The root of these rapidly rising health costs is what economists have called the Third Party Payment problem.

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The cost-lowering potential of direct-payment practices is heartening because the current third-party payment system has failed to stem our burgeoning health cost crisis.

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It also includes the estimated tax payment for the third quarter of 2011, which would normally be due Sept. 15.

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