"A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care."
"As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs."
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Source: Tearing Down the Barriers to Competition by Diana DeGette, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
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