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Internists diagnose health-care system ills, show how to achieve universal coverage

In a new evidence-based paper, the American College of Physicians analyzes health care in the US and 12 other industrialized countries and identifies eight lessons that could be applied to the political and social culture of the United States to achieve a high performing health care system, including achieving universal health insurance coverage for all Americans.

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