Health Affairs, 28, no. 2 (2009): 586-587
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.2.586
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Total Cure: The Antidote to the U.S. Health Care Crisis
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(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008), 318 pp., $27.95


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Are you sitting down? I have in hand a 318-page health care reform plan that could actually work. Really.

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