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Health Affairs, 27, no. 1 (2008): 216-220 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.1.216 © 2008 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Victoria Sweet

UNTIL SHE WAS SEVENTY-NINE, MRS. D HAD BEEN perfectly healthy. She lived just down the street from the neo-Rococo cathedral that marks the Italian quarter of our city, and there she’d been baptized and married, and buried her husband. On the whole, she was satisfied with her life. She managed the small apartment building in which she lived; she was on the board of the Italian-American Association; and every Sunday she cooked dinner for her only son. An expert seamstress as a young woman, even now she mended the church’s linens, taking pleasure in their . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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