Rising retail sales should push transaction volumes up for payment network providers.

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It usually follows payment delays, debt defaults and a push for courts to force the company into liquidation to pay its debts.

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Since his days on the campaign trail, the president has promised to push for affordable health care for Americans, often citing his mother's battle with insurance companies over payment of her mounting bills for treatment of ovarian cancer.

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