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By Rick Badie
June 24, 2014

Does the Affordable Care Act help hold down health care costs? Today, we offer two polar views. A Phoenix surgeon and Cato Institute scholar says Georgians will pay more for health care because Obamacare expanded health insurance without reigning in spiraling costs. An economist, meanwhile, credits the plan with stemming the rise in consumer insurance costs.

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