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Atul A. Gawande, M.D., M.P.H, Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D., and Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D. President Barack Obama has argued that health care reform is essential to the future economic health of the United States. But the economics of both health care and reform are daunting. Is ...

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