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By Drew Altman | Sunday, May 17, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…The announcement that health-care industry groups plan to voluntarily shave $2 trillion off the rate of increase in health spending over the next 10 years reminded me of the voluntary effort launched with similar fanfare in the Carter administration. Then, industry groups fended off Jimmy Carter’s efforts to aggressively control the costs of hospital care by offering to do it themselves. Their efforts helped slow the rate of increase in health spending for a few years — and helped defeat Carter’s plan — but then the rate of increase in costs spiked again….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/15/AR2009051502925_pf.html