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Why government cannot cure our health care

Matt McCord, MD
Policy
August 5, 2014

There are few things more important than our health and our health care. Solving health care for everyone is critical to becoming a healthy, vibrant society. Because our government has controlled our health care for two generations, election realities and political rancor obscures our ability to collectively solve the problem. Allow me to use a fictitious government program, “Foodaid,” to defray the noise and illustrate how government-control of our health …

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Why government cannot cure our health care

The Affordable Care Act is more of our broken health care model

Matt McCord, MD
Policy
June 22, 2013

Every week we read another article on the fuzzy math and ridiculous mark-up for our routine healthcare. Do your own research; see Elizabeth Rosenthal’s article in a recent Sunday New York Times, the $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill or Steven Brill’s lengthy tome in Time, Bitter Pill.

We spend, and will continue to spend, more on healthcare than any other nation in the world and yet we are 38th in …

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The Affordable Care Act is more of our broken health care model

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