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A Prescription for Cutting Health-Care Costs

The finance chief of Cardinal Health says there is plenty the private sector can do to bring health-care spending under control.

March 10, 2010

Jeff Henderson, CFO of Cardinal Health, may not know the future of health-care reform in the United States, but he is sure about what is needed.

"The really big issue that will dictate whether health-care reform happens or not is...whether it helps get health-care costs under control," the finance chief of the $96 billion health-care supply-chain management company told a group of finance executives Tuesday at the CFO Rising conference in Orlando. Read more...

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