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A Surgeon's Case for Universal Health Care

If every other industrialization nation and Massachusetts can do it, so can the feds

By Rebecca Smith Hurd, Newser User

Posted Jan 19, 2009 7:02 PM CST

(Newser) – If Americans are smart, they'll learn from other nations—and Massachusetts—in building a system of universal health care, writes surgeon Atul Gawande in The New Yorker. The rise of health reform "is surprising and instructive" in nations like the UK and France,... Read full story »

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If every other industrialization nation and Massachusetts can do it, so can the feds

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