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"Hands off My Medicare": The Deadly Legacy of Social Insurance

By Colin Gordon

Mr. Gordon, professor and chair of history at the University of Iowa, is the author of Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America. He is a writer for the History News Service. Attribution to the History News Service and the author is required for reprinting and redistribution of this article.

Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis

By Jonathan Cohn

10-21-07

Mr. Cohn is the author of "Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis -- and the People Who Pay the Price (HarperCollins), from which this article is excerpted.

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