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Marcia Angell

Dr. Marcia Angell is a member of the faculty of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
How to Provide Medicare for All
Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act, became law six years ago. The intention was to ensure that nearly all Americans have health insurance, while controlling costs. How did that work out? When the law was enacted, about 16 percent of Americans were uninsured. That has dropped to 10 percent. So...
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