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Health care.(Letter to the editor)
I enjoy your magazine and have been a subscriber for years, but I was seriously disappointed with your September 2007 article on health care ("Are You Really Covered?"). In particular I thought the explanation of why health care costs so much was incomplete and misleading. Yes, I am prejudiced, being a physician, but the physician piece of the pie is quite small relative to the price of medications, procedures, ...
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