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How investing in public health could cure many health care problems

  • Written by Linda P. Fried, Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center
imageThe Flint, Michigan water crisis highlighted problems with aging infrastructure. Ehrlif/Shutterstock.com

Now that the Cassidy-Graham bill has been pulled, it’s a good time to think about concrete ways to improve health and health care in our country. Despite advances in medicine, U.S. health care spending grew to US$3.2 trillion in 2015, or...

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