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Costs, Benefits, and Sacred Values — Why Health Care Reform Is So Fraught

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  • Lisa Rosenbaum, M.D.

As debate about U.S health care begins anew, with particular focus on a “Medicare for All” type insurance design, it’s worth considering why weighing the complex but real trade-offs involved in health policy remains so politically challenging.

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Dr. Rosenbaum is a national correspondent for the Journal.

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