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Candidates fail to address quality, cost of healthcare
Chicago Tribune, September 23, 2008
Polls show voters worry a lot about healthcare and how much they spend on it. But neither candidate has focused publicly on treating the real problem: why Americans pay significantly more for medical care than anyone else in the industrialized world yet we trail several other nations in healthcare quality, access, and efficiency.
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