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Achieving a US health care system 'second to none'

All candidates running for office in 2008 should commit to an agenda to create a health-care system for the United States that is second to none the American College of Physicians said today in its annual report on The State of the Nation's Health Care. In its report, ACP offers a five-point Candidate's Pledge designed to gain candidate commitments to support a series of recommendations.

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