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Prop up foundations of opportunity.(The Providence Journal)
There was a chilling column in the March 26 Boston Globe by health-care economist Uwe Reinhardt _ chilling if you aren't rich and/or fear for the long-term prosperity and stability of the United States.
Professor Reinhardt, who teaches at Princeton, discusses the rise of "boutique medicine," in which your access to health care, or at least top-quality health care, depends almost entirely on your ability to pay. He notes that it's the same sort of thing that increasingly applies in American education.
Of course, the quality of one's health care and education has long depended heavily on one's family income. But the purveyors of "boutique education" and ...
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