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o 42.8 percent of U.S. companies offer some kind of consumer-driven health care product. o 61 percent of U.S. companies offer some kind of adoption assistance. o 86.1 percent of U.S. companies offer mail-order

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Health care costs are skyrocketing out of control, the headlines blare. More than 40 million Americans cough and sniffle through life without health insurance, critics complain. Thomas Jefferson, in his treatise for independence, wrote