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Business
Mitchell Schnurman

Texas employers band together to combat high health costs

DALLAS — If you can’t beat ‘em, join together.

That’s the approach adopted by large business groups on health from Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Last week, they launched a coalition committed to slowing the rise in health care costs, and they plan to start by lobbying lawmakers during the next Legislature.

They want to ban certain language in contracts between health insurance plans and hospitals that they say intentionally blocks market competition.

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