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Can States Afford The New Health Care Law?

Physician assistant Tom Harward takes a patient's blood pressure in an exam room at the Belington Clinic, a community health center in Belington, W.Va. Across the U.S., state officials like the amount of increased federal spending in the new health care law, but they are wary of how high their own costs will be and how much heavier their workload is about to become. (NPR)
Physician assistant Tom Harward takes a patient's blood pressure in an exam room at the Belington Clinic, a community health center in Belington, W.Va. Across the U.S., state officials like the amount of increased federal spending in the new health care law, but they are wary of how high their own costs will be and how much heavier their workload is about to become. (NPR)

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