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A better way to cap out-of-pocket Medicare costs

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Neoliberalism is bad for your health

This book review ran first on the Washington Monthly website:

America’s Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era.

By John E. McDonough, Johns Hopkins University Press, 472 pp.

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