Lofty rhetoric frames President Obama’s health care summit

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None of The Takeaway staff was chosen as one of the seven “average Americans” in President Obama’s health care summit in Washington, but we’re making sure we ? and you ? stay part of the conversation. Dr. Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, provides a national health check.

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