Web Letters: Healthcare Lifeboats

By David U. Himmelstein & Steffie Woolhandler

This article appeared in the April 27, 2009 edition of The Nation.

April 8, 2009

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  • The more I study this, the less likely it looks that there is any answer in which government can do better than the current system. Most of the proposed financing appears iffy and shaky, even if we follow the fiscal model of forcing people to subscribe to a single program.

    John D. Froelich

    Upper Darby, PA

    04/11/2009 @ 3:03pm


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