House plans to release health care cost-control plan Friday

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By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff

Legislative leaders said Thursday that they will release comprehensive plans to control health care costs in Massachusetts within the next week. The House has scheduled a press conference Friday afternoon at 2:30, during which House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Representative Steven Walsh, a Lynn Democrat who co-chairs the Health Care Financing Committee, will discuss details of the House proposal. The Senate plans to release its cost-control plan on Wednesday.

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