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Unhealthy America
nytimes.com - 24 days ago
Unhealthy America
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The moment of truth for health care is at hand, and the distortion that perhaps gets the most traction is this: We have the greatest health care system in the world. Sure, it has flaws, but it saves lives in ways that other countries can only dream of. Abroad, people sit on waiting lists for ...
reason.com - 30 days ago
The Unhealthy 'Public Option'
— reason.com — The Unhealthy 'Public Option' Using government-run health insurance to fix the status quo is like using a... brick to improve a window Steve Chapman | October 29, 2009 If Medicare were a bank, federal regulators would be closing its doors, selling its ... (more) The Unhealthy 'Public Option'

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Market Drive Health Care May Be Outsourced
The Mahablog — ... Update: However, as Nicholas Kristof points out — we may get better care by going overseas. Our health care system, in spite of being the best health care system in the world, isn’t that great. ...

Kristof: U.S. Health Care Sucks & An Apology to Slovenia
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... It turns out that Slovenians are sick and tired of having their health care system compared to the miserly American system. Today a red faced Nicholas Kristof apologizes to Slovenia. ...

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