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Want to fix America's health care? First, focus on food

  • Written by Dariush Mozaffarian, Professor of Nutrition, Tufts University
imagePoor diet hurts our health and our wallets.Lukas Goja/Shutterstock.com

The national debate on health care is moving into a new, hopefully bipartisan phase.

The fundamental underlying challenge is cost – the massive and ever-rising price of care which drives nearly all disputes, from access to benefit levels to Medicaid expansion.

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