Paul Krugman: “Let me offer a somewhat, but only somewhat, caricatured view of U.S. health care: It’s a system in which taxpayers bear the cost of major medical care, but this taxpayer money flows through private companies that take a cut, spend a lot on administration, and do their best to deny care to people who need it.”
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