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You may remember that earlier this month, leaders of the health care industry went to the White House to promise President Obama that they would cut health care costs.  This commitment was intended to establish a good-faith relationship and to show all observers that the health care industry was being proactive about controlling costs.  Now health care companies are hedging on the commitments they made to the President, arguing that they will be ruled as a violation of antitrust law.  That’s what happened to former President Bill Clinton’s voluntary cost-control program in 1993.  Read the full New York Times article here.