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By Mary Winter - Politics DailyGrand Junction, Colo., where President Obama will host a town hall Saturday, is a model of efficient health care. The community of 120,000 on the scenic western edge of the state delivers gold-standard health care at cheaper prices than almost any other place in the country -- $5,873 per Medicare patient in 2006, about 30 percent below the national average, according to Dartmouth University researchers. ...
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