HHS Chief: Fixing Health Care Costs 'Imperative'

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt challenged the nation’s governors to get health care costs under control, calling it an “economic imperative.” He warned that if medical costs continue to rise — and the latest numbers from his department suggest they will eat up one out of every five dollars of GDP by 2015 — the country will surely fall from the world’s economic leader board.

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