Yale Public Policy Professor Ted Marmor says commissions like these generally have two purposes.
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In fact, says Marmor, that's not necessarily the case at all.
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In the case of health care, Marmor does agree with the president that Medicare and Medicaid are growing more rapidly than the rest of the economy, and consuming a growing share of the nation's output.