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The deep roots of Americans' hatred of their health care system
The industry’s blame game will not end the US national health care nightmare.
The often callous nature of the US health care system has long been a point of wide discussion, with evidence piling up that the way the country provides medical services is costly in both money and human life. As Vox’s Eric Levitz covered, this policy would not actually result in higher bills for patients; it is instead the kind of cost control that policymakers will often vouch for when public attention is elsewhere, something meant to rein in high payments to health care providers. The American Medical Association and its compatriots greatly preferred the country to cover most people through private employer-sponsored insurance over a government program and fiercely lobbied to smother the latter in the crib.
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