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Wall Street Journal (subscription required), April 14, 2008

In this opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Kellerman, MD, notes that most discussions about the rising cost of healthcare emphasize the need to get more people insured. But, Kellerman says, perhaps the solution to much of what currently plagues healthcare, such as rising costs and diminishing levels of service, rests on a different approach: fewer people insured.

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