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Why there's more to fixing health care than the health care laws

  • Written by George Wang, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
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There is so much debate currently about how best to provide health insurance coverage in our country that we risk losing sight of what it really means to be healthy and of how health care should be optimally provided.

The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of...

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