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Are Americans Closer Than We Think To National Health Insurance?

Woolhandler and Himmelstein provide a much-needed corrective to the view that the U.S. health care system is private. They remind us that Americans, for all of their ostensible anti-government bias, individualism, and love for the market, have after all a mixed health care system in which the government plays a prominent role. That role is not limited to providing public insurance to Americans who are left out of the private market, through Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), or to delivering medical care to military personnel and veterans. As these authors document, the federal government also . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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