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Universal Health Care Requires Paradigm Shift

By Rep. James Langevin
Special to Roll Call
March 9, 2008, 11:59 p.m.

Health care costs in the United States are rising at an alarming rate. Yet despite the fact that we spend more per capita on health care than any other industrialized country, we produce some of the worst outcomes by a number of important health measures.

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