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Health & Costs - USA - UAW, Big Auto seek feds' help with health care costs
Detroit,Mich,USA -The Detroit News, by Daniel Howes -Oct 21, 2005: -- General Motors Corp.'s billion-dollar health care deal with the United Auto Workers is just the beginning... In a separate pact reached during the months-long talks, the two sides said "the federal government has a primary role to play in improving health care quality and in making the health care system more affordable and accountable."... That's bargaining-speak that means GM and the UAW plan to step up pressure on Washington for help controlling runaway health care costs, which are strangling manufacturers and Detroit's automakers... They want the feds to help reduce the cost of prescription drugs by opposing drug patent extensions, which delay cheaper generic drugs; open information on doctors, hospitals and insurers by releasing the Medicare claims database to public scrutiny; pass laws to speed the adoption of 21st-century information technology in medical record-keeping... Until the health care mess gets worse, any solution for Detroit needs to be made right here...
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