Comments about: 5 myths about our ailing health-care system

WASHINGTON — With Congress ready to spend $700 billion to prop up the U.S. economy, enacting health-care...
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OMG of augusta, ME
Nov 28, 2008 6:48 PM
OUTSIDE OF THIS COUNTRY YOU'LL DIE OF OLD AGE WAITING FOR AN OPERATION!!What a bogis,left-wing article. Another professional speaker inflating the numbers,pumping universal health care and scaring the crap out of people.report abuse
Sprung of Portland, ME
Nov 28, 2008 8:08 AM
This is an excellent analysis of America's insanely expensive medical care system. The authors are quite right that there are many advanced countries with a federal government insurance system that delivers quality care at about half the price that we pay. And most of these countries' citizens have longer life expectancies.report abuse

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