Lofty rhetoric frames President Obama’s health care summit
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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